American Montagnards

Excerpt from "American Exiles: The History of the Montagnards" by Neil Haight

"...and between 1755 and 1763 the Acadians were forcibly deported from British East America into the Appalachians; the intent being to remove the entire people to the territory of French Louisiana. Little did the British expect that the vast majority of the displaced settlers would stay in the mountains, becoming both a source of continual trouble and a political asset against forbidden colonial expansion for years to come."

[mowque]

Who are Montagnards?

[DrakeRlugia]

Members of the Mountain, radicals during the French Revolution.

Mountagnards

It just means "of the mountains". I'm simply proposing that the Acadians are pushed into the Appalachians during the Expulsion, rather than disseminated throughout the colonies and to England.

[Cash]

Originally Posted by Faraday Cage

It just means "of the mountains". I'm simply proposing that the Acadians are pushed into the Appalachians during the Expulsion, rather than disseminated throughout the colonies and to England.

FC, is your title a reference to the Montagnards of Vietnam, who fought on the US side during the war?

BTW, the Acadians weren't scattered through the colonies or sent to England during the Expulsion. Some ended up in French Louisiana (the forebears of today's Cajuns) and others were repatriated to France. The stubborn ones fled inland and settled the St. John River valley in northern Maine and New Brunswick.

[Dan1988]

Originally Posted by Faraday Cage

It just means "of the mountains". I'm simply proposing that the Acadians are pushed into the Appalachians during the Expulsion, rather than disseminated throughout the colonies and to England.

Hmm, in that case the Brayons of Madawaska* would be in a different situation than in OTL.

*Pretty much the original lumberjacks, on the fringe of "French territory", in NW New Brunswick and those adjacent areas of Maine).

[Keenir]

Originally Posted by mowque

Who are Montagnards?

neighbors of the Hmong.

Originally Posted by Cash

FC, is your title a reference to the Montagnards of Vietnam, who fought on the US side during the war?

BTW, the Acadians weren't scattered through the colonies or sent to England during the Expulsion. Some ended up in French Louisiana (the forebears of today's Cajuns) and others were repatriated to France. The stubborn ones fled inland and settled the St. John River valley in northern Maine and New Brunswick.

I am aware of the Cajuns, but I'm also pretty sure that I'm correct about many being spread out among the colonies thinly enough for assimilation and some being shipped to England.