110 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 
recapture of Louisburg (p. 101) and by seizing the French forts 
in Acadia (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick); (2) to take 
Fort Duquesne; (3) to take the French fort at Niagara; (4) to 
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Scene of the French and Indian War. 
take Crown Point, on Lake Champlain, and move northward 
from that point and capture Quebec. 
In June, 1755, the English sailed into the Bay of Fundy and 
captured the French forts on the neck of land which connects 
Nova Scotia with the mainland. This isthmus, with the country 
round about, was usually known as Acadia, The Acadians were 
simple, peaceable farmers, but they were a headstrong folk, and 
they would not acknowledge their English captors as their mas- 
ters. So the English determined to rid the land of them. One 
day (September 5, 1755) when the people were in the churches 
at worship, soldiers appeared and seized the men, women, and