The River Clyde is dredged to allow larger trade ships to navigate to the city. By this time Glasgow was the largest importer of tobacco in Britain. Video: A history of Scotland: The Price of ...

Scotland's History Enlightenment and Empire Scots own Colonial plantations The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

Scotland's History Enlightenment and Empire Glasgow prospers from Empire trade The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish ...

Street protests continued on through the late 1760s. Customs officials in the colonies pleaded with the British crown to send soldiers to maintain order. By October 1768 Boston was home to 4,000 ...

Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal ... and think hard about the rights of American colonists. The British spent a fortune to defend American territories during the ...