Crossword-Solution: ACADIANS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

And yet, in every war, their region was infested with iron-hearted soldiers, both French and English, who fought one another for the privilege of ill-treating these poor, harmless Acadians.

The English determined to tear these poor people from their native homes and scatter them abroad.” The Acadians were about seven thousand in number.

The dead were happy; for they were not exiles! While they thus stood upon the wharf, the curiosity and inquisitiveness of the New England people would naturally lead them into the midst of the poor Acadians.

Surely they could pity the wretched wives and mothers of Acadia! Or aid the sign of the cross which the Acadians continually made upon their breasts, and which was abhorred by the descendants of the Puritans,--did that sign exclude all pity? Among the spectators, too, was the noisy brood of Boston school-boys, who came running, with laughter and shouts, to gaze at this crowd of oddly dressed foreigners.

But the despair of the Acadians soon had its effect upon these thoughtless lads, and melted them into tearful sympathy.