84 The Beginning of British Honduras
carried it out with the help of Admiral Boscawen. The story
is best known to English readers from Longfellow's "Evan-
geline." The Battle of Quebec between Wolfe and Mont-
calm in 1759 revealed that this was merely a part of the mil-
itary strategy of an advancing army which deemed it unwise
to have seven thousand French speaking people on its left
rear flank.
 According to the official instructions, dated 11th August
1755, "it was resolved that they shall be dispersed among his
Majesty's Colonies upon the Continent of America that the
inhabitants may not have it in their power to return to this
Province nor to join in strengthening the French of Canada
or Louisbourg." They were landed in Boston, Connecticut,
New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, North and South Caro-
lina, and Georgia. New Jersey refused her consignment and
Virginia re-directed hers to England. Some boatloads were
supposed to be lost at sea. Later some of the deportees wan-
dered into, Louisiana, and some to Saint Domingue and
Guyanne. In 1763 a French mission gathered 750 from every-
where and took them to France. In Newfoundland the
French government had removed with the garrison to Louis-
bourg in Cape Breton Island and taken most of the civilians
with them, but many did not want to leave their homes. They
stayed behind with the new people, and at least 500 of the
fisherfolk were deported in 1755. Of those sent to England
where, like elsewhere, they were unexpected, 300 were landed
in Bristol where they spent three nights on the wharf and
were then confined in old houses where smallpox carried
many away. Of 366 landed at Liverpool there were only 224
after seven years, according to the report of the Duke of
Nivernais, French ambassador, who sent his secretary to see
them in 1762.
 French North American exiles had turned up like drift-
wood on the beach in nearly every insular and mainland
Caribbean country. Some even went as far south as the Falk-
land Islands. In the southern part of the Cockscomb Coast