Expulsion of the Acadians
1755–1764 · Event
Britain deports some 11,000 Acadians from the Maritime colonies, scattering families across the Thirteen Colonies, Britain and France; many later settle in Louisiana, where they become the Cajuns, and many die of disease and shipwreck.
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