Down North and Up Along 
commanded the entrance by land into the 
Peninsula of Nova Scotia, and was then com- 
missioned to remove those Acadians whose 
headquarters were at Grand Pre. Other offi- 
cers were sent to perform a similar duty in other 
Acadian centres, but it is of Grand Pre, where 
the plan was most fully carried out, that we 
always hear. It is believed that three thou- 
sand or more French settlers were removed 
from Acadia, and that over two thousand were 
taken from Grand Pre and vicinity. 
It was a thankless task to Winslow, and to 
his credit be it said he did it reluctantly and as 
humanely as possible. It was decided that 
the people could not be turned adrift on the 
borders of Acadia to join the enemy, who would 
be only too glad to receive and make use of 
them, and so they were put on board ships and 
sent away, scattered all along the English colo- 
nies on the Atlantic coast, some of them even 
finding their way to Louisiana, where their 
descendants may be found to-day, in better 
condition if report be true, than were their 
ancestors in the apple lands of Acadia. 
The same military reason which caused their 
dispersal over distant shores also caused their 
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