Acadia
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Acadia was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. Settlers primarily cam
Siege of Saint John (1645) – d'Aulnay defeats La Tour in Acadia
Duc d'Anville Expedition: Action between HMS Nottingham and the Mars
Acadians at Annapolis Royal, by Samuel Scott, 1751; earliest known image of Acadians
St. John River Campaign: A View of the Plundering and Burning of the City of Grimross (present-day Arcadia, New Brunswick) by Thomas Davies in 1758. This is the only contemporaneous image of the Expulsion of the Acadians.
Expulsion of the Acadians
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The Expulsion of the Acadians was the forced removal of the French colonists of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain. It included the modern Ca
Acadia
…supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting them. This process began in 1755, after the British captured Fort Beauséjour and began the expulsion of the Acadians with the Bay of Fundy Campaign. Between six and seven thousand Acadians were expelled from Nova Scotia to the lower British American colonies. Some…
British Army officer and Governor, Charles Lawrence
Deportation of the Acadians, Grand-Pré
Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot