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Canada and the United States

Geoffrey Plank. An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia. (Early American Studies.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. 239. $29.95.

On May 9, 1690, seven hundred New England soldiers descended on the Acadian capital of Port Royal, initiating two decades of sporadic confrontations among English, French, and Mi'kmaq peoples. In 1710, English authorities began a concerted plan of occupation, seized the capital (renamed Annapolis Royal by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713), and variously promoted policies of forced migration, missionization, and education in the hope of transforming the colony into a Protestant society. By the mid-eighteenth century, this outcome had not been achieved, and in 1755 a force of New England and British soldiers forcibly removed 7,000 Acadians from Nova Scotia for resettlement in English colonies elsewhere in North America. 1

Geoffrey Plank examines the complex factors that led to the Acadian deportation by exploring the impact of the conquest of 1710 on the region's English, French, and Mi'kmaq populations. He suggests that initial plans for restructuring Acadia lacked efficacy because they originated in England rather than the colony itself. Ineffectual political control, a French colonial presence, and Acadian and Mi'kmaq antagonism undermined initiatives also. Additionally, beginning with Samuel Vetch (a Scottish adventurer chiefly responsible for the conquest), the English refused to cultivate an amicable association with the aboriginal population such as that which had developed between the Mi'kmaq and Acadians over the course of the previous century. . . .

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