lest we forget

[Graeme R Forbes]

It seems that our history goes back further than you thought. From 
David Lyons' coffee-table book "Scotland", p. 184, reproduced as 
printed, but for the elisions:

...the event which most shaped Highlanders were the Highland 
Clearances, which started in the late 18th and continued into the 
early 19th century...this was when ambitious landowners cleared the 
land of people in favor of sheep farming...the upshot was that 
thousands of poor framers...were thrown off their ancestral lands or 
out of their townships to fend for themselves with little or no 
resources to help them.

Tout ca change, if you're on a Mac.

Graeme Forbes