BSU and Gollin

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(2)War is hell. For the most part the Acadians were expelled, not exterminated, for not signing an oath of allegiance. In WWII the Japanese population was impisoned. Again war is hell. If in Louisiana the Acadians would be us.

not the way I learnt it.
Many ships packed with Acadians never reached any shore.
The oath was used later to strip them of their properties.
The deportation was swift and sudden; those who smelled a rat absconded in the woods and were chased.

(4)So it's unfortunate you chose a bad example.

Why?
I don't know of any other so-called mulatto community that achieved such a level of politicization. Except maybe the war between Paraguay and Brazil, in which Paraguay pushed its own nationalism against Brazil, called a country of negroes.

(3)The French and Indian War was particularly brutal and neither side excelled over the other in terms of brutality. Try Fort William Henry on for size.

The French and the Confederate were many times more friendly with indians that the average. The French underwrote numerous treaties, and you had episodes like abbè Leloutre that are absent in other cases.

Anyways i suppose we can lay this to rest and agree to disagree.
My point was simple: take it or leave it.