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What is Lieutenant-Colonel Winslow's perspective on the order to deport the Acadians?

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Lieutenant Colonel John Winslow, the commanding officer that was charged with the forcible removal of young Acadian men at Grand-Pré, later that month, described the scene in a letter dated September 10, 1755: “Order ye Prisoners to March. They all answered they would not go without their fathers.

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