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A half-century of conflict. France and England in North America. Part ...

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352 APPENDIX.Shirley to Newcastle, 8 July, 1747.(Extract.)" I shall now take the Liberty to submit to your Grace'sConsideration the most practicable Scheme, that occurs tome at present for effectually driv<strong>in</strong>g & keep<strong>in</strong>g the Canadeansout <strong>of</strong> Nova Scotia; viz^ if M^ Knowles when theSeason is too far advanc'd for the French to make anAttempt from <strong>France</strong> aga<strong>in</strong>st Louisbourg, should detach1000 Men out <strong>of</strong> that Garrison to be jo<strong>in</strong>'d by 2000 fromNew Engl<strong>and</strong> at Annapolis Royal, <strong>and</strong> from thence to proceedto Schiegnecto; that Force would, I apprehend, drivethe Enemy <strong>of</strong>f, <strong>and</strong> easily make us Masters <strong>of</strong> all the Inhabitants<strong>of</strong> that District, who seem to have ever been sodeeply engaged on the Side <strong>of</strong> the Enemy as to make 'emforfeit all pretence <strong>of</strong> right to hold their Possessions ; <strong>and</strong>if the 2000 New Engl<strong>and</strong> Men were to share among 'emthat District upon Condition <strong>of</strong> their setl<strong>in</strong>g there withtheir Families <strong>in</strong> such a defensible manner as they shouldbe directed to do, <strong>and</strong> the french Inhabitants <strong>of</strong> that Districtwere to be transplanted <strong>in</strong>to New Engl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong>distributed among the four Governments there; That Iapprehend might be a Settlement <strong>of</strong> the District <strong>of</strong> Schiegnectostrong enough to keep the Canadeans out, <strong>and</strong> todefend themselves aga<strong>in</strong>st the Indians ; <strong>and</strong> the Inhabitants<strong>of</strong> the two other Districts <strong>of</strong> Nova Scotia, viz*. Menis &Annapolis, be<strong>in</strong>g thus lock'd up between the Settlement<strong>in</strong> Schiegnecto at one End, <strong>and</strong> his Majesty's Garrison atthe other, <strong>and</strong> aw'd by the removal <strong>of</strong> the french Inhabitants<strong>of</strong> Schiegnecto from <strong>of</strong>f their L<strong>and</strong>s, would be constantlyheld to their good behaviour, <strong>and</strong> by Intermarriages& the spread<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> the English Settlement from Schiegnecto,the whole Prov<strong>in</strong>ce, or at least the greatest part <strong>of</strong>it, might <strong>in</strong> two or three Generations become English

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