Excerpt from The History of Grand-Pre The Home of Longfellow's "Evangeline' The poem Evangeline is a remarkably correct page of history. Since its appearance in 1847, because the odium of the act of the expulsion seemed to rest with the English Government, a great deal has been written in attempt to show that the Acadians were, in them selves, largely to blame for the fate that befell them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.