Complex sentence: According to Plank, both combatants-Mi'kmaq and British leadership-understood their conflict as a "race war" and both were "singlemindedly" determined to drive each other from the peninsula of Nova Scotia (Plank, 1996, pp.33-34).
Split into simpler sentences: According to Plank, both combatants-Mi'kmaq and British leadership-understood their conflict as a "race war". Both were both "singlemindedly" determined to drive each other from the peninsula of Nova Scotia (Plank, 1996, pp.33-34).