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It’s bucolic today, but here the colonists clashed again with the British and killed 200 Redcoats.
Settler , from 1788, was roughly synonymous with colonist: I say roughly because W.H. Breton, in 1833, distinguishes between settlers the farmers only and colonists the whole of the free inhabitants, though this may be an academic distinction as John Dunmore Lang in the next year remarks that spirit of irreconcilable enmity to standing timber... almost uniformly evinced by all Australian colonists.
Unlike the other colonists, who eventually melted into the culture, the Cajuns kept to themselves in the bayou, retaining their 17th-century language and customs.
The Native Americans (Choctaws and other tribes) who settled here thousands of years before the arrival of the French colonists lived a simple life.
Four hundred years ago these crops brought British colonists to rule the land and African slaves to work it.