Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

Title: Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland Author: John Mack Faragher ISBN: 9780393328271 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 2006 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1623171 Publisher Description: In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to