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Though five ships and 1,200 Scottish colonists landed successfully in Darien, the settlement was poorly provisioned and eventually abandoned. A second, larger expedition (launched before the fate of the first was known) took up the deserted settlement, but was quickly Besieged by the Spanish . More than a thousand succumbed to hunger and disease, and in April 1700, two ships carried the few survivors home. All told, the disastrous venture, dubbed the Darien Scheme , drained Scotland of more than a quarter of its Liquid Assets and may have played a key role in pushing the country to the eventual 1707 Act Of Union which united Scotland and England . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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