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Canada and the United States

Anthony W. Parker. Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735–1748. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1997. Pp. xiv, 182. $35.00.

The settlement of Highland Scots in colonial Georgia is one of the more obscure stories of early American settlement. Hailed for their military valor, several hundred Highlanders were recruited for the colony by James Oglethorpe during the Trustee period of Georgia's history in an effort to defend the fledgling settlement against an attack from Spanish Floridians seeking to push back British encroachment upon the disputed territory between the colonies. The Scots, centered at Darien, suffered considerably in the confrontations that resulted during the early years, but their settlement provided the foundation for the future emigration of Scottish Highlanders to Georgia. . . .

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