John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale. He is the author of many books on American history, including a biography of Daniel Boone that received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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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 despe... SEE MORE