As you can see this in most cases doesnt damage the snp
In this biography of a certain Robert Patterson of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, it says the following:
>During the American revolution Patterson, unlike most of the other settlers from America, favoured the British side. In his enthusiasm he attempted to arrest some of the disloyal inhabitants, and was warned off by threats of murder. When trying to reach Halifax for copies of the oath of allegiance which Governor Francis Legge had ordered everyone in the province to take, he was forced to return home by an armed American settler at Truro. Possibly Patterson had not spent enough time in the American colonies to be influenced by the revolutionary movement. It is more likely, however, that as a far-sighted businessman he perceived the opportunities for profitable trade if the colony remained in Britain’s good graces, and he was also well aware that the Highland Scots, the majority of Pictou’s inhabitants, were strongly pro-British. In recognition of his services he was made a captain of militia in 1783.
Why were the Highland Scots pro-British? This is suprising to me given the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
One line that always jumped out at me from the 1970 film Waterloo is one spoken by Napoleon as he observes the advance of a unit of Scottish infantry early in the battle:
"Has Wellington nothing to offer me but these Amazons?"
As far as I can tell, this line was invented for the film, but it got me thinking about upper-class French and other continental European attitudes towards the Scottish people during this time period. Napoleon's line and the actor's delivery implies to me a sense of inferiority, strangeness, and maybe barbarity? Elsewhere in the film Scottish characters are depicted variously as: outsiders among the English soldiers and officers, exceptionally physically imposing (at one point the Lady Sarah Lennox appraises some Scottish dancers the same way someone would riding horses), unusually high-spirited and brave, and sometimes uncouth. Obviously these are all decisions by the filmmakers, but all the qualities taken together remind me of the way imperial peoples sometimes depict defeated or integrated outsiders/"barbarians": Roman depictions of the Gauls, American military depictions of some Native American groups and leaders, etc.
So, how did upper-class continental Europeans of the Napoleonic Era think about the Scottish people? Specifically:
Did they think of the Scottish people as European and/or White and/or civilized? Or were they considered excluded from one or more of these categories? (bonus question: how did this thinking contrast with their ideas of the Irish and Welsh? Did they even think of the Welsh??)
And, did they imagine, like some modern people do, that the image of the kilted Scottish highlander represented all of Scotland?
Thanks!
Oftentimes, Scottish people are divided geographically and culturally between the highlands and lowlands: Presbytarian vs. Catholic (at least in the past), Scots vs. Gaelic and so on. With this in mind, are there genetic and/or ethnic differences between these groups? On one hand I've read that all Scots are similarly descended from the same Pictish and Gaelic people, with traces of Viking and Anglo-Saxon blood in there too. Or is it that Lowland Scots are more defined by being Germanic due to their proximity with England? Curious to hear everyones thoughts.
Hello Scotland, love your country! I had read somewhere a while back, and can’t find anything about it online now (so maybe I’m an idiot), that the average highlander (at least today, but possibly historically) lives in a lower altitude than the average lowlander(anyone living south of the highland line). Because the population of the highlands is usually on the coast, or along the lochs. While across the lowland areas of Scotland have high populations inland. Is this right? Sorry if this a stupid question (I’m American).
