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A quote from
American President Woodrow Wilson, "Every
line of strength in American history is a line coloured with
Scottish blood."
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More than 100
governors of pre- and post- Revolutionary America were of Scottish
birth or descent.
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Others from
Scotland or of Scots descent in American history:
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- 35 U.S.
Supreme Court Justices, 25 of them are in the Great Americans Hall
of Fame.
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- Almost
half of the Secretaries of U.S. Treasury and one third of the
Secretaries of State were Scots.
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- Nine of
the signatures on the Declaration of Independence were from Scots
descent.
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- Nine of
the thirteen colony governors made in the new USA were Scots.
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- James
Pollock, of Scots descent, put the slogan
"In God We Trust" on American coins!
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61% of
American Presidents are of Scots or Scots-Irish descent.
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A Scot,
James Watt,
developed the first efficient steam engine and in so doing started
the Industrial Revolution.
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A Scot,
John Logie Baird,
invented the television.
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A Scot,
John Napier,
invented logarithms and the decimal notation.
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A Scot,
Kirkpatrick Macmillan,
invented the bicycle.
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A Scot,
John Muir,
is known as the 'Father of the U.S. National Parks'.
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A Scot,
John Paul Jones,
founded the American Navy.
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A Scot,
Alexander Fleming,
discovered penicillin.
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A Scot,
Sir Sandford Fleming,
surveyor and engineer divided the world into time zones.
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A Scot,
William Paterson,
founded the Bank of England.
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A Scot,
Alexander Graham Bell,
invented the telephone.
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A Scot,
James Paris Lee,
invented the repeating rifle.
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A Scot,
John
Chalmers,
invented the adhesive postage stamp.
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A Scot,
John Boyd Dunlop,
invented the car tyre.
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A Scot,
Captain
Patrick Ferguson,
invented the breech loading rifle.
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A Scot,
Major General Lachlan
Macquarie,
is know as the 'Father of Australia'.
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A Scot,
Sir
John Alexander Macdonald,
was the first Prime Minister of Canada under confederation.
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A Scot,
Thomas Blake Glover,
was one of the founding fathers of modern Japan.
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A Scot,
Henry Faulds,
pioneered the use of fingerprints as a means of undisputed identity
of people.
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A Scot,
Robert Stirling,
invented the Stirling engine in 1850. Stirling engines are being
studied at NASA for use in powering space vehicles with solar
energy.
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Other famous Scots: |
ROBERT BURNS
Poet
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ANDREW CARNEGIE
Businessman & Philanthropist
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Author
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DAVID LIVINGSTONE
Missionary & Explorer
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SIR
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
Explorer - Canada & Arctic
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JAMES LOUDON MCADAM
Road Builder
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Author
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WILLIAM WALLACE
Freedom Fighter
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The Scots
invented golf.
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“History
credits the
Rev. Elijah Craig,
a Baptist minister, with being the first in 1789 to make bourbon.”
He was a Scotsman. Kentucky is the place for bourbon because of the
limestone which makes the water almost iron-free.
“The first bourbon recognized by brand outside
of Kentucky probably was produced by
Dr. James Crow...a
Scotsman who settled near the Rev. Craig’s place.”
He was known by the locals as Jim Crow.
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The
Scottish-American Hall of Fame contains more plaques for the
military than any other category. Twenty-one men are installed
including
Daniel Boone
who is listed as an “Indian Fighter".
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The list is as
follows:
George Rogers Clark,
Frontier hero of the Revolutionary War;
Stonewall
Jackson; Joseph E. Johnston; Henry Knox; Arthur MacArthur,
army general, father of Douglas MacArthur;
George B.
McClellan; Alexander Macomb,
general and hero of the War of 1812;
William
(Billy) Mitchell,
controversial air power advocate;
William
Multrie; George S. Patton,
WWII exponent of mobile warfare;
Winfred
Scott,
Mexican War and Chief of staff;
J.E.B. Stuart,
Confederate cavalry general;
Christopher “Kit” Carson,
frontiersman and explorer;
William Clark,
explorer with Merriwether Lewis;
Davy
Crockett,
frontiers-man who died at the Alamo. Two individuals are listed
under the category of “Naval.” They are
David
Glasgow Farragut,
Civil War naval hero, and
John Paul Jones,
Revolutionary War naval hero.
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Famous Quote:
"If all else fails, I will retreat up the
valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around
the Scotch-Irish of that region and make my last stand for liberty
amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst
there is a man left to draw a trigger." George
Washington, Valley Forge.
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Scottish
Freemasonry is now officially recognised as being the oldest in the
world and is now recorded as a
Guinness World Record.
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Although the
Scots comprise less than one-half of 1 percent of the world’s
population, 11 percent of all Nobel prizes have been awarded to
Scotsmen.
Quote
from "The Mark of the Scots" by
Duncan A Bruce.
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The world’s
first university faculty of engineering and technical science was in
Glasgow.
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67
US Politicians were born in
Scotland that we know off.
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There are
estimated to be 20,000 Americans living in Scotland and half a
million visit each year.
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It is
estimated that 15% of Canadians are of Scots descent.
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Scotland
invented branch banking and so brought banking facilities to the
people and the world.
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The Reverend
Malcolm MacDonald, a native of Whitton, Quebec, a descendant of the
early Scots settlers and of the first church established in the
area, says:
"The Book of Books was the library they
opened, and the Church of Jesus Christ was the first institution
they established and that in their homes, and the Gospel of Christ
was the philosophy they espoused. The most casual
observer and historian must admit that these early settlers played a
leading part in setting the course in which the Nation travels
today. I am indeed grateful that we are privileged to stand in the
stream of a noble, spiritual, national and cultural tradition, which
has flourished in Scotland for centuries, and for some 150 years
established firmly on this North American Continent, in both Canada
and the United States."
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Scots émigrés
to the US are five times more likely to become dollar millionaires
than those from any other country, according to a study of wealth.
Thomas Stanley and William Danko, in their book
'The Millionaire Next Door',
analysed the ethnic backgrounds of the wealthiest members of US
society and discovered that while people of Scottish origin make up
1.7% of the population, they comprise 9.3% of its millionaires.
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At the battle
of Trafalgar (The British under Nelson won a decisive naval battle
off southern Spain against the French and Spanish.) in 1805 around
30% of the fleet's crew hailed from Scotland and Scottish industry
provided timber products, sails, ropes, iron cannons and iron balls.
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