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Other political leaders wanted a bigger war, and so they publicly announced Newcastle’s plans and changed the original plan so that Braddock would command more forces and order the fractious North American colonies to provide additional support against the French. Once the plans had been publicly announced, the French government moved quickly to dispatch reinforcements to North America and further pursued negotiations to diplomatically isolate the British government by winning over its traditional European allies. Once military forces were underway, the war was inevitable.
====The British Round up Expel French Colonists from Acadia====
By 1755, the uneasy truce between the British ruling authorities and the French colonists living in Acadia was [[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-deportation-of-the-acadians-feature#:~:text=Between%201755%20and%201763%2C%20approximately,in%20France%20or%20the%20Caribbean.&text=Back%20in%20Nova%20Scotia%2C%20the,by%20settlers%20from%20New%20England.| shattered]]. The French colonists began moving to Acadia (modern-day Nova Scotia) in 1604, and it remained in French hands until the signing of The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. The treaty handed Acadia over to Great Britain. Despite the shift, the French colonists remained in Acadia. Despite handing over Acadia to the British, starting the 1830s, tensions between France and Britain begin to rise slowly. Both France and Britain begin building forts in the regions surrounding Acadia.
By 1755, British Governor Charles Lawrence decided that the French Acadians represented a significant risk to the British colony. After the French colonists refused to pledge an oath to Britain, Lawrence decided to deport the colonists from the territory. Lawrence seized all of the colonists' property, burned their crops, and forced the colonists at the point of bayonets to board ships bound for the southern British colonies. In the first wave of deportations, over 1,000 Acadians were deported. This forced exodus continued until 1763. Bu 1763, over 10,000 Acadians were forcibly deported by the British. Thousands of the Acadians died [[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-deportation-of-the-acadians-feature#:~:text=Between%201755%20and%201763%2C%20approximately,in%20France%20or%20the%20Caribbean.&text=Back%20in%20Nova%20Scotia%2C%20the,by%20settlers%20from%20New%20England.| during this deportation]].
The Acadians were scattered across the British colonies, and some made their way to Louisiana. The term Cajun is a reference to their original homes. By 1764, the British reversed their policy and allowed the French colonists to return to Acadia. Unfortunately, their previous homes and lands had already been seized and handed over to British colonists by this time. The ones that returned were forced to start over.
====Why did the French and Indian War escalate the Seven Years War?====
