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Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire
John Prebble
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| #3277969 in Books | Birlinn Ltd | 2002-09 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.13 x5.52 x8.57l, | File type: PDF | 384 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| good book, good value|By robert condon|Promptly received, good book, good value, goog D company.|From Library Journal|Prebble's 1968 volume chronicles Scotland's failed 1695 attempt to establish a colony in Central America in an effort to break free from Britain and become an empire. Everything that could go wrong did, and the plan ended in disaster, cos
In defiance of the King in the face of the hostility by the English, the Scottish Parliament set out to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Darien in Central America. This, the persistent dream of one man, William Paterson, was to be a panacea for Scotland's economic ills. The first expedition set out in July of 1698. Three years later, the whole enterprise collapsed, two thousand men had died for nothing and with them had been lost half the wealth of Scotland. Its fina...
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