On the 10th they embarked, passing, on their way to the ships, between two rows of women and children in tears.
The young people had shown a disposition to resist, demanding leave to depart with their families: the soldiers crossed their bayonets.

The vessels set sail for the English colonies, dispersing over the coast the poor creatures they had torn away from all that was theirs.

Many perished of want while seeking from town to town their families, removed after them from Acadia; the charity of the American colonists relieved their first wants.

Some French Protestants, who had settled in Philadelphia after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, welcomed them as brothers, notwithstanding the difference of their creed; for they knew all the heart-rending evils of exile.
Much emotion was excited in France by the woes of the Acadians.

In spite of the declaration of war, Louis XV.