The Darien Scheme: The Colony That Sold Scotland to England

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On the first day of May, in the year 1707, a nation that had existed for nearly 900 years, quietly extinguished itself. The Kingdom of Scotland, a fierce and ancient sovereign state that had beaten back the Roman legions and defeated the armies of medieval England, did not fall to a foreign invasion. It did not collapse under the weight of civil wa... Read More