Quote Originally Posted by thescot View Post
Ah, a wonderful discussion and photos of things historical. Thank you gentelmen for a pleasurable read.

Karl, I do hope you were/are able to visit the old fort south of Savannah as well. Fort King George, I think, near Darien. There's also Fort Jackson and Fort Pulaski in Savannah that offer interesting visits. The one in Darien has earethen embankments and reconstructed wooden builings as well.

I understand that Ogilthorpe's penchant for Scots had a lot to do with the fact that they were willing to fight and would stand between the English settlements and the Spanish from Florida. I heard one amateur historian opine that it would be interesting to see the faces of the Spaniards who looked out to see the Scots marching against them wearing their kilts. An interesting thought if not completely historically correct.

I'm pretty sure that any kilted Scots quickly lost the kilts in the humid heat of So. Georgia, although I understand that many origianlly arrived in kilts. Trust me: the heat and humidity are not condusive to comfortable kilt wearing.
There was some suspicion of Oglethorpe's loyalties to the Hanoverians at one time, if memory serves me correctly. I'll need to find that reference and report back.

T.