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To be fair, Scotland did try and be a colonial power - but was incredibly incompetent at it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme https://en.wikipedia.o
by arethuza 5y ago
To be fair, Scotland did try and be a colonial power - but was incredibly incompetent at it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
- smcl 5y agoIt's kind of interesting that the area is to this day pretty rough, devoid of big settlements and the single reason you can't drive the length of the Americas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap Though to be clear I agree that it was incompetence that scuppered the scheme, reading little snippets on the scheme itself the colonists were woefully ill equipped for the task of creating a settlement.
- arethuza 5y agoMy favourite bit is that the organisation set up to handle the English "bail out" money eventually became RBS which, a few hundred years later ended up requiring yet another epic bailout from the UK government.