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The first American in space, Alan Shepard, the first American in orbit, John Glenn, and the first man to fly free in space, Bruce McCandless II, were Scottish Americans. [ 76 ] The first men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin , were also of Scottish descent; Armstrong wore a kilt in a parade through his ancestral home of Langholm in ...
In 1627 while accompanying England to the battle of Biscay against France, The acting Admiral High Admiral John Gordon of Lochinvar sailed to the West Indies, And founded the Scottish colony of Charles island, Now known as Floreana, One of the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador [6] in addition of founding this colony the Scot’s also seized and privateered french prizes.
The Scottish diaspora consists of Scottish people who emigrated from Scotland and their descendants. The diaspora is concentrated in countries such as the United States , Canada , Australia , England , New Zealand , Ireland and to a lesser extent Argentina , Chile , and Brazil .
The term Scotch-Irish is used primarily in the United States, [11] with people in Great Britain or Ireland who are of a similar ancestry identifying as Ulster Scots people. Many left for North America, but over 100,000 Scottish Presbyterians still lived in Ulster in 1700. [12] Many English-born settlers of this period were also Presbyterians.
From 1941 to 1950, 1,035,000 people immigrated to the U.S., including 226,000 from Germany, 139,000 from the United Kingdom, 171,000 from Canada, 60,000 from Mexico, and 57,000 from Italy. [76] The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 finally allowed the displaced people of World War II to start immigrating. [77]
Pages in category "Scottish emigrants to the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 726 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Winfield Scott, general, veteran of War of 1812, commanded American Army of Occupation during the Mexican–American War; Alan Shepard, naval aviator and astronaut; first American in space and fifth man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 14; George Spalding, politician from Michigan; John C. Stennis, U.S. senator from Mississippi [72]
Unlike the Iberians, the British men came with families with whom they planned to permanently live in what is now North America. [38] They kept the natives on the margins of colonial society. Because the British colonizers' wives were present, the British men rarely had sexual relations with the native women.