being sold in Amsterdam and Hamburg. This opposition also prevented shares being sold in England, as was the original intention. In 1696, 2,500 Scottish settlers, in two expeditions, set out to found a Scottish trading colony at Darién on the isthmus of Panama. These settlers were made up of ex-soldiers, ministers of religion, merchants, sailors and the younger sons of the gentry, to receive 50 to each. The government of the colony was run by a committee, the chairman of which changed every two weeks. The problems faced by the settlers included a lack of provisions due to famine in Scotland, the Scots' lack of colonising experience, diseases such as malaria, poor weather and the proximity of the Spanish, who claimed the land the Scots had settled on. Also, for a trading colony established to trade with passing ships in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, they carried a poor choice of trade goods, including wigs, shoes, bibles, woolen clothing and clay pipes. The colony received no assistance from the crown or English colonies in the West Indies or Jamaica, despite having been promised, in the 1695 act, the assistance of William II. Thus, the Scots faced assaults by the Spanish on their own. In 1699, they dealt with this by recruiting a Jamaican captain to raid Spanish shipping as a privateer, but this achieved little. Soon thereafter, the Spanish mounted an expedition of 500 men to wipe out the Scots. This was effective, as most settlers had already succumbed to disease or starvation. The company also took control of Crab Island in 1698 (modern day Vieques, Puerto Rico), yet sovereignty was short-lived. Darien, Georgia (1735) Darien, Georgia, was a settlement created by Englishman James Oglethorpe and his aide Captain George Dunbar who brought in 177 Scots settlers to the Province of Georgia. It was named after the previous failed settlement on the Isthmus of Panama, though it was, for a time, also known as "New Inverness". See also Darien scheme Darien, Georgia Nova Scotia Scottish Tobacco trade Scottish Indian trade Lowland Clearances Highland Clearances Former colonies and territories in Canada English colonial empire Modern diaspora Scottish Americans Scottish Argentine Scottish Australians Scottish Brazilians Scottish New Zealanders Scottish Canadians Canadian Gaelic Scottish Chilean Scottish Jamaicans Origins of Falkland Islanders References Further reading , on East New Jersey. External links Scotch Fort historic monument in Nova Scotia 17th century in North