History of Leith, Edinburgh

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JACOBITE armies clashed once again with their Hanoverian foes yesterday in a dramatic re-creation of one of the most brutal encounters in Scottish history. for more click here

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The Darien scheme began in 1695 when the Scottish Parliament passed an Act for the establishment of a ‘Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies’. It was founded so that Scottish merchants could find an outlet for their goods and became known as the ‘African’ or ‘Indian Company’ before becoming the ‘Darien Company’. Although this was a Scottish enterprise much of the money, people and effort was London based and it was always known as the ‘Scottish East India Company’ in England. for more click here

THE Darien Venture is often seen as one of Scotland’s great follies: a flawed attempt to establish its own overseas empire that was doomed from the start, crippled the country financially, and led to the 1707 Act of Union.

But a new archaeological expedition into a previously unexplored area of the Darien Isthmus has shown that plans to establish a colony and set up a trade route across Panama were not foolhardy or ridiculous but entirely feasible. for more click here

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