In the spring and summer of 1785, seven vessels carrying 1,596 Acadians departed France for Louisiana, the largest single migration to that colony during the eighteenth century. Spanish colonial officials at New Orleans welcomed them with medical assistance and provisions, and--having learned from Ulloas mistake--allowed them the freedom to choose where they would settle. Some joined relatives at Attakapas or along the Mississippi, the so-called Acadian Coast, but three quarters of them settled in groups in the country of Bayou Lafouche, a newly opened district west of the Mississippi River. With this mass movement from France,(Nantes) the Acadians established themselves as one of the largest and most distinct groups in Louisiana. By the end of the eighteenth century there were some four thousand of them in the..nouvelle LAcadie of the South....A Great and Noble Scheme
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