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Languages : en
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Letter from William Shirley to the Lords Commissioners, Enclosing Copy of a Letter to Colonel Cornwallis Regarding French Incursions
Author: Letter from William Shirley to the Lords Commissioners, Enclosing Copy of a Letter to the Marquis de la Galissioniere Concerning Treaty Enforcement
Author: Letters from William Shirley to the Lords Commissioners, Enclosing Documents Relating to Massachusetts Politics
Author: Letter from William Shirley to the Lords Commissioners, Concerning Bills to Divide Townships
Author: Letters from William Shirley and Josiah Willard to the Lords Commissioners Concerning Rioting, Maritime Affairs, and Wartime Administration
Author: George Washington
Author: George WashingtonPublisher: Liberty Fund
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Based almost entirely on materials reproduced from: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 / John C. Fitzpatrick, editor. Includes indexes.
History of Halifax City
Author: Thomas Beamish AkinsPublisher:
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Category : Halifax (N.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Francis Parkman's Works
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Pioneers of France in the New World
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
Author: John Mack FaragherPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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 swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.