Personally I have no strong feelings about what Scotland does one way or the other... they are still part of the British Isles and part of British history no matter what. Good luck to them, whatever they decide. I know though that some English and Scottish are getting het up about it. The way I see it as a historian, just as with the abuses by Cromwell in Ireland, Edward I in Wales, the Duke of Cumberland at the time of Culloden in 1745 has a lot to answer for. To the English may be credited the transportation after the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite rebellions of rebel Scots to the Americas, similar to United Irishmen leaving for the New World after their failed rebellion of 1798. When I wrote the Bicentennial history for the St. Andrews Society of Baltimore (1806-2006), I found out that at least one of the transported Jacobites landed on his feet here in Maryland -- he became Sheriff of Calvert County and a notable landowner in the county where, in St. Leonards Creek, Commodore Joshua Barney fought two naval battles with the British in the summer of 1814. History continues to haunt us even if some wish to deny it! With Ant Hogan Mersey Beat Adam Wood Kathleen Faulkner Norman Ball John McCavitt
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:53:35 +0000
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