Summary
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Punta Escoces is a remote island along Panama's southeastern coast which had been the site of one of the most tragic episodes in the colonization of the Americas. The misadventure concerned the plight of the Darien colony, a group of Scottish colonists led by William Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England.See the full content of this document
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Disaster in Darien.
In the late seventeenth century, before union with England, the Scots ventured to carve out a colony in the New World--with fateful results
There is a remote point of land on Panama's southeastern coast that still bears the name Punta Escoces, or Scots' Point, on Spanish maps. But unless a person travels to this rain forest on the Darien coast not far from the Colombia border, this is about the only trace one will find of one of the most bizarre and tragic episodes in the colonization of the Americas. How was it possible that two ex...See the full content of this document
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