ltar the decree of their exile. Resistance was
impossible; armed soldiers guarded the door, and the men were
imprisoned. They were marched at the bayonet's point, amid the wailings
of their relatives, on board the transports. The women and children were
shipped in other vessels. Families were scattered; husbands and wives
separated--many never to meet again. Hundreds of comfortable homesteads
and well-filled barns were ruthlessly given to the flames. A number,
variously estimated at from three to seven thousand, were dispersed
along the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Georgia. Twelve hundred were
carried to South Carolina. A few planted a New Acadia among their
countrymen in Louisiana. Some sought to return to their blackened
hearths, coasting in open boats along the shore. These were relentlessly
intercepted when possible, and sent back into hopeless exile. An
imperishable interest has been imparted to this sad story by
Longfellow's beautiful poem _Evangeline_, which describes the sorrows
and sufferings of some of the inhabitants of the little village of
Grandpre.

FOOTNOTES:

[39] By permission of the author.

CLIVE ESTABLISHES BRITISH SUPREMACY IN INDIA

THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA: BATTLE OF PLASSEY

A.D. 1756

SIR ALEXANDER J. ARBUTHNOT

Robert Clive is recognized as the man to whom, above all others,
England owes the establishment of her empire in India. Born in 1725
in Shropshire, he was raised to the Irish peerage in 1760 as Baron
Clive of Plassey. The son of a poor country squire, at eighteen he
entered the service of the East India Company at Madras.

For over a century the company had competed with its Dutch rival in
India, and Clive went to his post at a time when French rivalry with
the English was becoming formidable. In 1744 war broke out between
the English and French, and Clive saw his first military service. In
the second war with the French (1751-1754), he bore the leading
part, capturing Arcot (1751), and successfully defending it against
a vastly superior force of natives, who were aided by the French. By
these successes he won a brilliant reputation. His later career
proved him to be as efficient in civil as in military affairs, and
he stands in English history distinguished among great
administrators, although he has been no less the object of censure
than of praise by his country's historians. A parliamentary inq