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Embarkation of the Acadians, by Emile Bayard, circa 1884.
Credit: Courtesy of the NYPL digital gallery, New York Public Library
During summer and fall of 1755 troops from Massachusetts rounded up 7,000 French residents of Nova Scotia and transported them to Britain's North American colonies. Pennsylvania's quota was 400 Acadians, as they were called, most of whom soon died from disease or fled to join their brethren in Louisiana.