British Capture Port Royal, Acadia

October 16, 1710

After a brief siege, Colonel Francis Nicholson's New England forces took Port Royal and renamed it Annapolis Royal for the queen. French Acadia became British Nova Scotia. The Acadians themselves, promised toleration, would remain on their dyked marshlands until expulsion came for them forty-five years later. Their removal in 1755 would scatter a people across the Atlantic world and seed Louisiana's Cajun culture.