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Map of Scotland with Regions and Major Towns21st Century, Circa 2008
Credits:http://www.scotlandview.co.uk/map.htm
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Glenfinnan, Inverness-shire, Scotland, overlooking Loch Sheil21st Century, Circa 2008
Inverness-shire, Scotland
Credits:http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=GLENFINNAN&psc=G&filter=1#5221927129458821426
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Map of Western Isles and West Coast of Scotland21st Century, Circa 2008
Northwest Scotland and Hebrides
Credits:http://map-of-uk.co.uk/map-of-outer-hebrides-scotland.htm
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Battle of Culloden18th Century, 1746
Culloden Moor, Inverness, Scotland
Credits:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/The_Battle_of_Culloden.jpg
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Highland Soldiers18th Century, Circa 1744
Highlands of Scotland
Credits:http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usscotfax/bkg/images/kilt5.jpg
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Glenfinnan Monument19th Century, ca. 1815
Glenfinnan, Scotland
Credits:http://www.freefoto.com/images/1088/11/1088_11_58---Glenfinnan-Monument_web.jpg
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Kilted Highlander atop the Glenfinnan Monument19th Century, ca. 1815
Glenfinnan, Scotland
Credits:teije.nl
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78th Fraser Highlander18th Century, Circa 1758
Highlands of Scotland
Credits:http://militaryheritage.com/78thregt.htm
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Battle Re-enactment at Louisbourg21st Century, 2008
Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
Credits:http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0eVTgsr6qBfxl/610x.jpg
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78th Fraser Highlanders at Louisbourg21st Century, Circa 2008
Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
Credits:flicker.com
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During the 18th century, the Highlands of Scotland underwent drastic changes both socially and economically. After Culloden in 1746, the old clan system disintegrated with chiefs abandoning their clanspeople for more comfortable lives either in the Lowlands or England. Severe penal laws which proscribed the wearing of traditional Highland dress, the bearing of arms and the music of the bagpipe were also enforced which contributed to a further deterioration of Gaelic culture. The old system of agriculture also underwent change with the introduction of large flocks of imported sheep by new landlords who evicted Highland clansmen from vast tracts of land. Only young men who had been recruited into special Highland regiments formed in the mid 1700's could wear Highland dress and play the pipes. These early regiments played an important part in the British effort to capture Canada. These same young men who saw the New World would bring back stories to the hills and glens of their homeland. These stories and the hardships they were enduring in Scotland at the time propelled them across the Atlantic. |
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