Scots in Latin America (Scottish Emigration c1800s) by David Dobson Twenty-five years after William Heacock

Twenty-five years after William Heacock sparked an Opalescent glass collecting trend with his book Victorian Colored Pattern Glass Book II

The author

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and is perhaps best known for his book A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland

Scots in Latin America (Scottish Emigration c1800s) by David Dobson Twenty-five years after William HeacockAlthough Scots are known to have ventured to Latin America as early as 1540 (mostly as soldiers of fortune), emigration from Scotland to Latin America only began in earnest after Spanish power in the western hemisphere began to wane. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, demobilized soldiers and sailors, Scots among them, flocked to aid the Latin American revolutionaries in their fight for liberty from Spain. Spain's ouster removed