Always respected Scotland.
But England crapped on her for years. Remember Culloden?
Yet Scots died in English military.
When Scotland had the chance for independence and voted no,
I lost a lot of respect..
American independence owes a great deal to Scotland.
Pity they don’t make Scots like they used to...
Scotland was a poor backwater before she joined the Union and became an industrialised trading powerhouse. As for the Jacobite rebellion, it was a British civil war, not Scotland VS England
The Stuart’s were very much a unionist dynasty, and Scots and English fought on both sides. The Manchester Regiment of English Jacobite manned the Jacobite artillery at Culloden, and many Scottish lowlanders served in Hanoverian regiments at Culloden.