On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:59:56 GMT, (The
Revolution Will Not Be Televised) wrote:

On 6 Aug 2003 08:45:07 -0700, (vince) wrote:

Ireland was essentially a proprietary colony. Large land grant were
awarded ... to anglo norman soldier adventurers who coudl then
go and fight to take the land from the locals.

Much like the United States then. When do you intend to end the
military occupation of Nebraska? I mean, really: it's not as if you
have a use for the place.

The plans for the colonization of America were directly taken from the
contemporaneous plans for colonizing Ireland. Same layout for
colonies, same lists of supplies for colonists, etc. Read "Martin's
Hundred" by Ivor Noel Hume for more detail and references.

The colonists were, by then, English, not Anglo-Norman. There were
probably some Welsh and Scots colonists, too, of course, but the real
flood of Scots followed Culloden and the Enclosure Acts. A lot of
those Scots ended up in North Carolina, by the way. Gabaldon did her
research well on that one.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer