CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1736, the first group of Scottish Highlanders arrived in the fledgling British colony of Georgia . They settled on the banks of the Altamaha River along the southernmost border of the province in a town they first called New Inverness, later to become Darien.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Argyll Colony was the first colony of Highland Scots to settle in Upper Cape Fear in 1739.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arriving from the highlands of Scotland, one group of settlers came to help defend Georgia from Spanish invaders and to make a new home for themselves. A reenactor portrays Scottish colonists that shared many characteristics with the Native Americans.

Detailed explanation-4: -There the Scots established the settlement they called Darien, in memory of the ill-fated expedition made by their countrymen to the Isthmus of Darien in Panama in 1697. There were 177 people in this hardy band of Scots, including women and children, and they were led by John McIntosh Mohr and Hugh Mackay.

Detailed explanation-5: -Between 1735 and 1748 hundreds of young men and their families emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to the Georgia coast to settle and protect the new British colony.