Devine is a master in the field of Scottish history, and his scope is interested in modern history and the diaspora of Scotland. Tales from the clearances are quite harrowing and not for the faint-hearted. First, the soldiers were butchered when the cannon fired grapeshot on a stationary Clan Donald and torn asunder. When the government had won the day they rounded up the Jacobite supporters and murdered them in cold blood. After outlawing their culture they decide to evict everyone to be cleared for sheep farming. They didn't just clear people off the land, there are accounts of the government setting crofts alight with people still in them. The Highlanders were then sent to the far reaches of the world as refugees. The common perception of Scots was that they were lower than criminals.
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