Indeed it is! I was looking for Irn Bru images a while back, and I ran across that. Rarely has an entry been more apt for it. :-)
The Scots *do* get everywhere. Even before I became a nut about Scotland, I knew that Scots had a strong connection with France and that the Kings of France had had Scottish regiments in their personal guard. And that in the 17th century there was a strong Scottish contingent in the Swedish army.
I can't, off the cuff, find the details on one of my favourite stories, but it was about an Austrian field marshal meeting a Turkish pasha to negotiate a truce in the Balkans and discovering that they had known each other as boys in Aberdeen. :-)
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winterbadger) wrote2009-09-10 08:04 am
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Goodness, the Scots are everywhere...
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The Scots *do* get everywhere. Even before I became a nut about Scotland, I knew that Scots had a strong connection with France and that the Kings of France had had Scottish regiments in their personal guard. And that in the 17th century there was a strong Scottish contingent in the Swedish army.
I can't, off the cuff, find the details on one of my favourite stories, but it was about an Austrian field marshal meeting a Turkish pasha to negotiate a truce in the Balkans and discovering that they had known each other as boys in Aberdeen. :-)
But here's a book that might be right up your allee. :-)