Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of Evangeline (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of Evangeline

Yet this is lieutenant-colonel John Winslow, great grandson of 'one of the founders of the Plymouth Settlement. Could he forget that his ancestors fled from persecution, and came to this country to find peaceful homes?

It was not his place to make reply, or reason why when receiving orders, however; and it seems that the task imposed was a distasteful one; as, at the time of the banishment, he earnestly expressed the desire to be rid of the worst piece of service 'he ever was in.

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