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IRELAND The Plantations Of Ireland were an instrument of retribution and political control. Lands were seized through act of war and given to English (and later, Scottish ) settlers who would be loyal to the Crown and keep the disloyal Irish under control. SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS During the Middle Ages the Scottish Government planted Scots -speaking Lowland merchant colonies in the Gaidhealtachd (the Gaelic -speaking part of Scotland ), for example at Campbeltown and Cromarty . NEW ENGLAND The , the New Haven Colony , the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (now New York) and the French Nouvelle Caledonie in Canada. In the state of Maine , the old meaning has been preserved in the name of local government jurisdictions. |