A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland SS_Gift_Guide a gifted sculptor named Catherine

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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland SS_Gift_Guide a gifted sculptor named Catherine"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