An Unsettled ConquestThe former French colony of Acadiapermanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native local population, and the