During the first half of the 19th century, Cape Breton Island experienced an influx of Highland Scots numbering approximately 50, 000 as a result of the Highland Clearances.

Cape Breton is well known for its traditional fiddle music, which was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants during the Highland Clearances.

British settlement of the Maritimes, as the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island came to be known, accelerated throughout the late 18th century and into the 19th century with significant immigration to the region as a result of Scottish migrants displaced by the Highland Clearances and Irish escaping the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ).

The major result of these changes were the Highland Clearances, by which much of the population of the Highlands suffered forced displacement as lands were enclosed, principally so that they could be used for sheep farming.

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In Britain, the privatization of common lands is referred to as enclosure ( in Scotland as the Lowland Clearances and the Highland Clearances ).

The population peaked at 158 in 1851, following eviction of crofters from Skye in the Highland Clearances.

The Highland Clearances of the 19th century had a devastating effect on many communities and it is only in recent years that population levels have ceased to decline.

In 1832, the whole of the families amounting to 500 persons, were obliged Highland Clearances | the clearances to leave the island, but were furnished with the means of reaching New Brunswick.

In the eighteenth century the total population of the combined Uists rose dramatically, before the population crash of the Highland Clearances.

After the Norse occupation, South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clanranald until 1838 when Colonel Gordon of Cluny bought the island and initiated Highland Clearances to make way for sheep farming, supplanting the crofters with farmers from the Borders, who brought Blackface sheep flocks.

The Highland Clearances of the 19th century had a devastating effect on many communities and it is only in recent years that population levels have ceased to decline.

Pictou was a receiving point for many Scottish immigrants moving to a new home in northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island following the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

During the Highland Clearances, many Scottish Highlanders were moved off their crofts, and went to industries such as fishing and kelping ( producing soda ash from the ashes of kelp ).

At the time, social upheaval in Scotland due to the introduction of sheep farming and the ensuing Highland and Lowland Clearances had left a number of Scots destitute.

The Visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 and the subsequent rise in tartanry did much to reinvigorate a sense of a specifically Scottish national identity, which had been split between the Episcopalian and Roman Catholic-dominated Highlands and the Presbyterian-dominated Lowlands since the Glorious Revolution in 1688, and continued during the 18th century through the Jacobite risings, the Act of Proscription and subsequent process of Highland Clearances by landlords.

The area was depressed as a result of the Highland Clearances, which had deprived many of their homes and jobs, and faced with laws which sought to eradicate their culture, including the right to wear tartan, to play bagpipes, and to speak Gaelic, many were emigrating to Canada or to the Scottish lowlands.

Increasing demand in Britain for cattle and sheep led to higher rents, with surplus clan population leaving in the mass migration later known as the Highland Clearances, finally undermining the traditional clan system.

Shortly before or after the Dress Act restricting kilt wearing was repealed in 1782, Highland aristocrats set up Highland Societies in Edinburgh and other centres including London and Aberdeen, landowners ' clubs with aims including " Improvements " ( which others would later call the Highland Clearances ).

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He asked Alexander to send him two new British divisions ( 51st Highland and 44th ) that were then arriving in Egypt and were scheduled to be deployed in defence of the Nile Delta.

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

The choice of a small islet as a home may seem odd today, yet waterways were the main channels for both communication and travel until the 19th century in much of Ireland and especially Highland Scotland.

In fact, Conley says, " The Producers were so happy with Gary's performance that they even called a " press conference " arranged by the movie's unit publicist, Liz Rodriguez, held by her and the " Mansion " producer team from historical Hollywood & Highland to officially exonerate Gary of any allegations that he had been fired and praised Gary's performance in the upcoming movie.

All aspects of Highland culture, especially the Scottish Gaelic language were forbidden.

* 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.

Immediately after the 1990 car bombing, while Bari was in Oakland's Highland Hospital, she and a friend were arrested on suspicion of knowingly transporting the bomb.

At that time there were substantial buildings in the Highland area, a castle in Codrington, a fort at River, now known as the Martello Tower, and houses at Palmetto Point, Coco Point, and Castle Hill.

The Highland tribes were renowned for their skill in headhunting, which was a symbol of bravery and valor.

The Allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed that Major Hamish Henderson of the 51st Highland Division composed a bitingly sarcastic song to the tune of the haunting German song " Lili Marleen " ( popularised in English by Marlene Dietrich ) called " The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers ".

Ninety men of the 16th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry ( the " Glasgow Boys Brigade " Pals battalion ) were cut off in Frankfurt Trench, where they held out until 21 November when the 45 survivors — thirty of them wounded — surrendered.

Meanwhile, in the village, Meg tells about the day her parents were drunkenly married (" My Mother's Wedding Day ") and the townsfolk dance until the sound of Highland Pipes pierces the air.

Being easier and cheaper to make than double-edged swords, backswords became the favored sidearm of common infantry, including irregulars such as the Highland Scots, who in Scottish Gaelic were called the claidheamh cuil ( back sword ), after one of several terms for the distinct types of weapons they used.

This celebration is held in Highland Park, which has the most varieties of lilacs at any single place, many of which were developed in Rochester.

The Assyrian archeological record shows that the Cimmerians, and the land of Gamir, were located not far from Urartu, ( an Iron Age kingdom centered around Lake Van in the Armenian Highland ), south of the Caucasus.

Soon after the Hayasa-Azzi were the Nairi ( 1400 – 1000 BC ) and the Kingdom of Urartu ( 1000 – 600 BC ), who successively established their sovereignty over the Armenian Highland.

Other scenes were shot in Chicago, River Forest, Oak Park, Northbrook, Highland Park, Glencoe and Winnetka, Lake Forest and Long Beach, California.

The first bagpipes to be well-attested to for Ireland were similar, if not identical, to the Highland pipes that are now played in Scotland.

The first settlers came to the region the mid 1720's, and were followed by the Highland Scots.

The Dukes of Atholl, as massive landowners, were initiators of and primary participants in, the Highland Clearances, the eviction and forced removal of families from their homes, to be replaced by sheep.

These evictions were part of a wider event that came to be known as the Highland Clearances, during which people whose culture had existed there for millennia were forced to emigrate.

By 1940 he was serving in the 51st ( Highland ) Division, and mentioned in dispatches, but, as the Germans advanced, the division was cut off and forced to surrender.

Fortunately for them, the arrival of fresh reinforcements, including the superb 7th Dragoon Guards and the Highland Brigade, forced the larger but weary Egyptian troops to retreat.

Several groups stood and fought, mainly the Sudanese troops in the front of the Highland Brigade, but those not overwhelmed in the first rush were forced to retreat.

However, Monroe continued to live primarily at Highland, his residence in Albemarle County — until 1826, when he was forced to sell that property to pay debts he had incurred while serving as President.

The Hero is forced to work for the mercenaries, until Jowy eventually finds him, and the two escape to their hometown of Kyaro in Highland.

During the 19th century the clan was badly affected by the Highland Clearances in which many of the clansfolk were forced to emigrate from Scotland.

Under his authority timber was felled for sale, the cleared land was leased to sheep farmers and many of his clansmen were forced from the land by increasing rents and evictions, with the great majority forced to go to British North America ( His clan primarily in Glengarry County, Ontario ) in part of what was later known as the Highland Clearances.

The end of the clan system in 1746 had removed most feelings of loyalty and even kinship to the chief amongst the Highland clans, and the Clearances ( forced removal from their lands ) had created bitterness toward anyone in authority.

He continued the evictions to make way for sheep farmers which his mother began when his father was chieftain, and most of the clan was forced to emigrate to British North America, as part of what was later known as the Highland Clearances.

Sutherland and his wife remain controversial figures for their role in carrying out the Highland Clearances, where thousands of tenants were forced out of their homes.

* The Highland Clearances, forced displacements of people in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries