Friday, June 12, 2015
http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/10/scotland-american-revolution/
Later this year, QEII will become the longest reigning british monarch, if you don't count the Old Pretender James III. That got me wondering if the American revolt in 1776 against the Hanover George III was really part of the ongoing Scottish struggle. The above article says it was more the other way around. That many redcoats were highlanders desperate for money, and most scots supported the idea of a unified Great Britain, seeing it as providing economic advantages, and were ok with the Hanovers in general because parliament was in charge, and the Scots had influence in parliament. More nuanced than that, read the article if you wish. My father's patronymic line had to leave Scotland because we are too closely related to Bonnie Prince Charlie, son of James III, a third cousin or so. It would have been death or slavery to stay. Robert the Covenanter is the one who came over, stopping in Ireland first. Before the 1745 defeat of Charlie, maybe 1680s or the 1715 rebellion. Balquhidder is our ancestral village. When my brother and I got our DNA tested, the results were about what you'd expect for somebody from Balquhidder, suggesting that either the ones we thought were our fathers were indeed our fathers, or at least some close relative rather than a total stranger. I digress.
Later this year, QEII will become the longest reigning british monarch, if you don't count the Old Pretender James III. That got me wondering if the American revolt in 1776 against the Hanover George III was really part of the ongoing Scottish struggle. The above article says it was more the other way around. That many redcoats were highlanders desperate for money, and most scots supported the idea of a unified Great Britain, seeing it as providing economic advantages, and were ok with the Hanovers in general because parliament was in charge, and the Scots had influence in parliament. More nuanced than that, read the article if you wish. My father's patronymic line had to leave Scotland because we are too closely related to Bonnie Prince Charlie, son of James III, a third cousin or so. It would have been death or slavery to stay. Robert the Covenanter is the one who came over, stopping in Ireland first. Before the 1745 defeat of Charlie, maybe 1680s or the 1715 rebellion. Balquhidder is our ancestral village. When my brother and I got our DNA tested, the results were about what you'd expect for somebody from Balquhidder, suggesting that either the ones we thought were our fathers were indeed our fathers, or at least some close relative rather than a total stranger. I digress.
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