French Fort Beausejour Falls: The Acadian Expulsion Begins
Thousands of people lost everything because a British colonel needed a win. Robert Monckton took Fort Beauséjour in just two weeks — barely a fight. But the real consequence came after. British officials decided the Acadian settlers nearby, French Catholics who'd lived in Nova Scotia for generations, couldn't be trusted. So they expelled roughly 10,000 of them. Families torn apart, homes burned, people scattered from Louisiana to the Caribbean. The Cajun culture of the American South? That's where the survivors ended up.
June 16, 1755
271 years ago
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