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What were the important events in the conflict:

If France and Britain went into war with one another, the Acadians would be drawn into the war with the two countries.The Acadians were Catholic and spoke French, though they had lived in Britain, and were living under the British rules peacfully for more than forty years. But the Acadians had a lot more in common with the French than with the British, even after forty years of living with them, in 1755 Acadia had 12000 Acadian settlers, and the British had 6000 British settlers. The Acadians out numbered the British two to one. The Acadians refused to fight against France in war, but they did promise to stay neutral. The French refused to trust the Acadians, because they were part of the British decent.

Who were the key names involved:

The people involved with the deportation of the Acadians is the British Lieutenant-Colonel John Winslow, Governer Lawrence, Viola Le'ger, Captain Charles Ince, Pierre Demonts, Samuel Champlain,and the Mi'kmaq (meeg-maw)Tribe.

what were the key battlesThe keys battles that were significant to the outcome of the Acadians were,when the English attacked Port Royal (a city in Quebec) in 1654 and captured all of the french settlements around the Bay of Fundy, the English got control over the southern part of France. The British didn't think they could trust the Acadians after they gained control of Acadia, trying to make them swear they will fight against the French in war. But the Acadians didn't want to fightagainst the French, the French shared their blood and their culture, they couldn't fight against family. So the British kicked them out of their country on big boats, most did no survive.