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I love this Scottish obssession in this thread. A wee bit of a misunderstanding about the events of the '45 methinks.
I wonder where the Earl of Bute was from.
Here, here!
Every time someone refers to "the Scottish nationalist uprising in 1745", my eyes bulge, my breathing turns shallow, and my hands make strangling actions. Long live Scotland, long live the Union, etcetera!
In all seriousness, it is to be noted that the highland regiments as they are today gained much of their elite reputation in America and a disproportianate number of redcoat officers were Scots. Since '45, Scotland had been transformed into the main bastion of loyalism in the kingdom and would actually have resisted American occupation harder than anyone else.
It seems that the dispute in this arrises from whether it is about an American conquest, which is politically and militarily impossible, or a kingdom-wide revolution on both shores of the Atlantic. That second one is a cool idea, but we need a POD way back in the 17th century to make it work, methinks. That of course introduces butterflies to Europe, so really we're talking about a differant timeline altogether.