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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 Scotias 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....