DBWI: What if Scotland had attempted the Darien Scheme?

Oweno

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What if Scotland had tried the Foolish Darien Scheme would Scotland have survived? Since we all Know it survived and went on to become a powerful nation
 
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ninebucks

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What makes you say it was foolish? In OTL the Spanish and the Portuguese had great successes in establishing colonies in Mesoamerica, (also some great failures, but risk is part of the colonising enterprise!).

If the Kingdom of Scotland had succeeded in settling in modern-day Panamera then there is significant chance that a stable colony could be formed. If a canal is still built through the region, then that would offer them significant profits.

As to whether the British Union would still occur, I think it would. By this time England and Scotland did share a Monarch afterall. Besides, so long as two states existed on mainland Britain, the threat of war could never really be ignored - Union allowed both nations to combine for the better interests of all involved, (as has been noted more contemporarily with the European Community and the Mesoamerican Union).

If the British controlled both the Panameran and the Souiz Canals, then the Empire would very likely be in a good position indeed, its possible that the Empire could even be around today!
 

Oweno

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What makes you say it was foolish? In OTL the Spanish and the Portuguese had great successes in establishing colonies in Mesoamerica, (also some great failures, but risk is part of the colonising enterprise!).

If the Kingdom of Scotland had succeeded in settling in modern-day Panamera then there is significant chance that a stable colony could be formed. If a canal is still built through the region, then that would offer them significant profits.

As to whether the British Union would still occur, I think it would. By this time England and Scotland did share a Monarch afterall. Besides, so long as two states existed on mainland Britain, the threat of war could never really be ignored - Union allowed both nations to combine for the better interests of all involved, (as has been noted more contemporarily with the European Community and the Mesoamerican Union).

If the British controlled both the Panameran and the Souiz Canals, then the Empire would very likely be in a good position indeed, its possible that the Empire could even be around today!
OOC: Delete this. In my world Scotland is Free and Independent no godamn Britain
 
OOC: Delete this. In my world Scotland is Free and Independent no godamn Britain

OOC: That post would be just as informative without the Plastic Celt bigotry, thank you. :rolleyes: And DBWIs don't work like that, they're formed from the world conceived by the entirety of the posters. In this world, Scotland and Britain are still united, then.
 

Oweno

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OOC: That post would be just as informative without the Plastic Celt bigotry, thank you. :rolleyes: And DBWIs don't work like that, they're formed from the world conceived by the entirety of the posters. In this world, Scotland and Britain are still united, then.

OOC: Fine. But the first post says would the Kingdom of Scotland remain Independence
 
OOC: Fine. But the first post says would the Kingdom of Scotland remain Independence

OOC: Well, it does now you edited it. I'm not criticising that, just making sure the record is there in case people get confused by ninebucks' comment.
 

Keenir

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What if Scotland had tried the Foolish Darien Scheme would Scotland have survived? Since we all Know it survived and went on to become a powerful nation

doubtful.

when small states try their hand at colonizing, they tend to get drowned....where are Sweden's colonies in the New World, after all? (overrun with - and run by - Pennsylvania Deutsch, that's where)

and Scotland kept merging with England (when the Scots weren't trying to secceede from Scotland itself)

so I say again, doubtful.
 
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