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	North Carolina History Project : Highland Scots
		Subsequent offers by Johnston attracted Highland Scots to North Carolina primarily for economic and political reasons, for in Scotland, they had difficulties paying the increasing land rents and had experienced defeat against the English at the Battle of Culloden in 1745.
		Also, the Highland evictions, beginning in the 1700s and continuing to the 1800s, forced many Scots to give up their land so that sheep could be raised.
		Highland settlements were numerous in this region during the eighteenth century, and evidence of them can be seen today in Anson, Bladen, Moore, Cumberland, Richland, Scotland, and Robeson counties.
	www.northcarolinahistory.org /encyclopedia/110/entry (932 words)

	myArmoury.com: The Scots
		Scots forces were based on a militia system not unlike that of England, Scots being obliged to equip themselves for war according to rank, and gentry to maintain feudal contingents, appearing for the Sheriff's inspection at biannual "Wappinshaws" (perhaps lured by the free drinks sometimes provided!).
		Highlanders were ferocious but unreliable, relying either on skirmishing or a single volley followed by a wild charge; they hated, and would not stand up to, cannon, which they called "the mother of muskets".
		A Scots trooper of the Bishops' Wars was said to be equipped with "fyve schot at the least, quhairof he had ane carrabin in his hand, two pistollis be his sydis, and uther tva at his sadill torr", but in general Scots cavalry seem to have had fewer pistols among them than the English.
	www.myarmoury.com /feature_armies_scots.html (2331 words)

	Scottish Highlands
		The Scottish Highlands are considered to be the mountainous regions of Scotland north of the Highland Boundary Fault.
		Even in a historical sense the Highlanders were a separate people from the Lowlanders, with whom, during many centuries, they shared nothing in common.
		The town of Inverness is usually regarded as the capital of the Highlands.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/Highland_Scots.html (147 words)

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		The Highlands are characterized by such social features as crofting tenure, strong community feeling, and a Gaelic-speaking population.
		The Highland Scots are bilingual in Scots Gaelic and English, but the Hebrides is the only area of Scotland which can be characterized as a Gaelic community.
		The township itself, however, is not considered to be the effective social community among the Highland Scots.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7845 (955 words)

	About the Ulster-Scots
		There was also a steady stream of Highland Scots migrating to the north of Ireland in the early 1800s as a result of the highland clearances in Scotland.
		The primary purpose of the plantation scheme was to populate the northern counties of Ireland with loyal British subjects, to counterbalance the native Irish.
		To ensure that the arriving Scots could be kept under control from rising up in Ireland in support of their brothers in Scotland, they were required to take an oath of loyalty to the British Crown, as ’denizens’ in Ireland.
	www.ulsterscotssociety.com /about.html (500 words)

	Scottish Highlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Highland Council is the administrative body for around 40% of this area; the remainder is divided between the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Moray, Perth and Kinross, and Stirling.
		This Highland area differed from the Lowlands by language and tradition, having preserved Gaelic speech and customs centuries after the anglicization of the latter ; the result of which led to a growing perception of a divide with the cultural distinction between Highlander and Lowlander first noted towards the end of the 14th century.
		Highland Park is a single malt Scotch whisky, which is distilled in Orkney, which is not part of either the administrative area of Highland nor the Scottish Highlands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highland_Scots (992 words)

	Scots to Colonial North Carolina Before 1775
		It appears that the main cause of most of the emigration from Scotland during this period was due to the rapidly deteriorating economy and standard of living in the Highlands and the lure of economic relief and the promise of a golden future in America as communicated through letters from America to Scotland.
		They [the Highlanders] were then as much a race apart as the Germans, less amenable to assimilation than the Lowland Scots, and far less so than the Scotch-Irish with their hostile attitude to the British government.
		Because the Highlanders were adventurous, didn’t mix well with the other populations, preferred to speak Gaelic, and were seen as supporters of the now-defeated Crown of Britain, many sought to “escape” unfriendly territory and struck out to tame the western frontier.
	www.dalhousielodge.org /Thesis/scotstonc.htm (3213 words)

	Sword Forum International \| swordforum.com
		Commencing in 794 A.D., both the Gaelic Scots and the soon-to-be-absorbed Picts (and for that matter the Irish as well) were plagued by the Vikings, with different groups fighting both with and against the Northmen at different times.
		Highlanders thus gained experience fighting Anglo-Normans in Ireland during the same period (commencing with William Wallace's struggle) in which they allied with Anglo-Normans of the Scottish Lowlands to fight Anglo-Normans from England.
		Commencing in the early 1400s, both Highland and Lowland men answered the call of the Dauphin Charles (later Charles VII of France), and up through the sixteenth century units of Scottish mercenaries were in the pay of the French king.
	swordforum.com /articles/hes/highlandscots.php (2073 words)

	Identifying the Highland Scots: Nineteenth century immigrants in Nova Scotia
		Dressed in their Highland long kilts, these first settlers were piped ashore - apparently by a crafty Scot who had not paid his fare but was supported by the others who felt it important to have a piper on board - and were forced to hew a new existence in a wilderness environment.
		Of course the Highland Scots had been closely connected to one clan or another, but it seems that this clan system was not transplanted in the new world.
		Highlanders are often pictured as lovers of whisky, bagpipes, haggis and the Highland-fling, but of course this is a stereotypical image grounded in scant facts and much fiction.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/canada/highland_scotsns.htm (5372 words)

	Ulster-Scots Agency
		The first Northern Ireland Highland Dance conference in the Quality Hotel Carrickfergus on Friday and Saturday March 21-22 was attended by candidates from Scotland, Italy and Northern Ireland.
		The main aim of the conference was to explore the possibility of forming an association of Highland Dance in Northern Ireland.
		The workshops addressed issues such as the current position of Highland Dancing in Northern Ireland and the need to form a central body, its structure, funding, tutor training, awareness and cultural development, use of professional support as required and standard setting.
	www.ulsterscotsagency.com /danceonmove.asp (300 words)

	The History of Highland
		The history of Highland Presbyterian Church is a record of the devotion and hard work of its members throughout the years of the church's existence.
		The determination and resourcefulness of those early members of Highland is illustrated by the story of how the women of the church got down on their hands and knees and tacked down the carpet in the new Sanctuary.
		Following a dramatic presentation by the Highland Performing Arts, entitled "Highland Beginnings," the congregation, led by the children of the church, processed to the new Highland Recreation and Learning Center where a service of dedication was held in the new gymnasium.
	www.hpchurch.org /004history.html (1962 words)

	Scottish History - Summary Index
		Many Highlanders, who still had Catholic and/or Episcopalian beliefs, or at least empathy for their Irish cousins, fought with zeal against the English church and especially against the Lowland Scots Covenanters (later Presbyterians).
		Here is an eyewitness account of the Highland anger from battle of Killecrankie: "The regular (English and Lowland Scots governmental British) troops followed their routine of firing a musket volley and then fixing bayonets to charge.
		He was given the responsibility of controlling the rebellious Highland Jacobites, and lacking the troops to overcome them initially, he put into action, with his Campbell conspirators, and with the blessing of King William, a sinister plot.
	www.scottish-history.com /glencoe.shtml (3690 words)

	Piping Competition
		As clans fought among themselves for control of the highlands and chief’s armies got larger and battles became more complex, pipes were useful as a rallying point in battle.
		It is said that the court ruled that a Highland regiment never marched without a piper and therefore his bagpipe was an instrument of war.
		The highland Scots, long noted for their fighting skill, were encouraged by their British rulers to form regiments to be posted in the far-flung outposts of the empire.
	www.triadhighlandgames.org /pipingcomp.html (1136 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: A Brief History - Scots in Canada
		In particular, Scots were attracted to the open avenues of participation in the country's political life that were denied them at home.
		Many a Scot looked forward to a new and better life as he watched the shores of his native land disappear in the mist that closed behind his ship and the piper's sad, haunting melody "We Shall Return No More" (Cha till mi tuille) eventually fading out of hearing.
		In 1773 the little brig Hector brought 200 Scots to Pictou, starting a whole stream of Highland emigration (their descendants, including the Camerons now number more than 40,000 and are spread throughout North America).
	britannia.com /celtic/scotland/scot18.html (697 words)

	Carolina Scots - Excerpts - Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Until last century, the Highlands were isolated from the Lowlands not only by the difficulties of travel through the mountains and remote islands, but also by a difference in language.
		The Highlanders are one branch of a larger family of Celts, who belong originally to the Indo-European peoples, and who seem to have come in two large waves to prehistoric Britain: one directly into mainland Britain and the other by way of Ireland.
		The Highlands of Scotland, however, can trace the main development of their peculiar culture to a sixth and seventh century migration of their distant relatives from Ireland to the Southwestern Coast of Kintyre.
	www.carolinascots.com /chap1.html (1174 words)

	The UNC Press, The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776 by Duane Meyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The UNC Press, The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776 by Duane Meyer
		Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown.
		Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina.
	uncpress.unc.edu /books/T-972.html (129 words)

	Massacre at Glencoe: A Highland Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Whilst the Highlanders and Islanders were seen as wild and uncivilised by the Lowlands and the English, the Highlanders saw their Lowland counterparts as simply another type of English.
		Highlanders swearing loyalty or fealty to any King is a diffucult thing to accomplish.During a time when a large portion of Scots Highlanders were still Catholic, due mostly to the "Auld Alliance" with Catholic France.
		Even Captain Burt, in the beginning of the next century writes of the Highlanders as if they were an interesting race of semi-barbarians, many of whom would cut a man's throat for the mere sake of keeping their hands in practice.
	members.aol.com /Skyelander/glencoe.html (4736 words)

	Pleasant nabs win over Highland Scots \| mountvernonnews.com
		Pleasant scored the first run of the game in the third inning with help from Highland’s lone error on the day, and the Spartans added a second run in the fourth after a bases-loaded balk was called on Hughes.
		Highland responded with a run in the fifth frame, but the Scots went hitless in their final two innings of the season.
		The Scots did not even hit a ball out of the infield until Zac Hampton led off the fifth inning with a double to left-center — the game’s only extra-base hit.
	www.mountvernonnews.com /Sports/060506/01.html (1029 words)

	Summaries of Highland Heritage
		During the Victorian era, lowland Scots adopted wearing highland tartan to appeal to English aristocracy, as the English failed to differentiate between lowland and highland Scots.
		This was decreed because in battle the highland Scots proved to be more merciless and steadfast in battle than their lowland counterparts, which created an increased rift between lowland and highland Scots.
		Highland Scots resented lowlanders already because of their poor performance in the battle of 1746 for Scottish independence, and the lowlanders resented the change because it meant being associated with rugged highlanders, considered to comparatively be on par with what our society deems “rednecks.”
	www.siu.edu /~anthro/adams/pages/310g/highland.html (4799 words)

	Reconstructing History — Scottish Historical Clothing Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Highland Scots emigrated from Ireland around 375 ce.
		The Lord High Treasurer’s account of materials for a Highland dress made for King James V in 1538 lists a vari-coloured velvet short jacket with green lining, a pair of tartan trews, two or more long shirts sewn with silk and ornamented with ribbons to the wrists.
		Early Scots hunting in the Mountains of Scotland.
	www.reconstructinghistory.com /scottish/kilts.html (1574 words)

	Historic Rural Hill Farm
		Geographically, Scotland is divided into three distinct regions; the vast Highlands and Islands in the north and west, the fertile green central Lowlands along the east coast and the broad valleys and hills of the southern Uplands along the border with England.
		With the death of his cousin, Elizabeth I, James VI of Scotland, the son of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, inherited the throne of England as James I. Despite hundreds of years of armed resistance, in 1603, with the stroke of a pen Scotland and England were united under one monarch.
		Many of the Highland Scots were middle class land owners, military pensioners, and former tacks men.
	www.ruralhillfarm.org /scots.htm (1123 words)

	We, the Gael
		Scots and Irish Gaelic, though technically two different languages, are mutually intelligible.
		The fact is that the Highland Scots emigrated to that country from Ireland in the early centuries of the Christian era.
		The Highlands of Scotland were inhabited by the Irish from around 200 C.E. Dál Riata was the name of the tribe who came from Ireland.
	www.historichighlanders.com /wegael.htm (604 words)

	The Highlander: Military History
		The Scots Guards belong to the Guards Division and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards belong to the Royal Armoured Corps.
		The story of Fraser's Highlanders begins in the mid-1750s with the struggle of William Pitt, the secretary of state, in dealing with the martial nature of the Highlanders.
		Pitt decided to turn their high spirits to the Crown's advantage by recommending to George II that Highland regiments be raised based on clan affiliation with clan chiefs and elders as officers.
	www.highlandermagazine.com /militaryhistory.html (261 words)

	My FamilyTreeDNA Lawson DNA Project - Family Project Website
		Scots were more closely related to the Northern English than they were to the Highland Scots.
		Since the Lowland Scots were on the border of England, they were constantly fighting the English, but also fighting with the Highland Scots.
		James I of England (who was James VI of Scotland) was the one that moved many of the Lowland Scots to Northern Ireland around 1610.
	www.familytreedna.com /public/Lawson (756 words)

	Scotland and the American Indians
		Since both Highland and Native societies revolved around a fluid oral culture, no figure was as central to their life as the bard.
		Highland folklore abounded with tales of the invisible "little people" (faeries) who moved easily between seen and unseen worlds.
		As the Highland crofters lived through the infamous Clearances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so, too, did the Natives of North America suffer through a series of removals that began in the seventeenth century and culminated in the 1830s.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/america/american_indians.htm (7125 words)

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