The colonial ambitions of Scotland soon go sideways as they face the full brunt of Murphy's Law. The colonists face disease, mutiny, starvation, and shipwrecks before the backdrop of the golden age of piracy.

The colony's ultimate fate unites a kingdom.

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Music:

• Hector the Hero by Geoff Knorr
• All in Circles by Shida Shahabi
• The British Empire by Brian Tyler
• Denmark by the Portland Cello Project
• Cock o’ the North by Geoff Knorr
• Bonnie Dundee by Geoff Knorr
• Endless Falls by Loscil
• Pieces of Eight by Bear McCreary
• The Wider Sun by Jon Hopkins
• Scottish Snare by Geoff Knorr
• Baer by Hildur Gudnadottir
• A Nation of Thieves by Bear McCreary
• Shimmy by Toussaint McCall
• Murder/Mermaid/Heavy Labor by Mark Korven
• The Spanish Empire by Brian Tyler
• Funeral at Sea by Bear McCreary
• Legions (War) by Zoe Keating
• The Sacred and The Profane by Paul Leonard-Morgan
• Elevator Song by Keaton Hensen
• Parcel o’ Rogues by Alastair McDonald
• The Final Journey by Christopher Spelmen

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Two boys go missing in rural Appalachia. Search parties scour the foothills, accusations fly, and some seek supernatural help in hopes of finding the pair of lost children.

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Against all odds, Shuja rises again. A figurehead for the British East India Company, he watches as an invading army devastates his homeland—in his name. Meanwhile, Dost Mohammed’s son Akbar Khan leads a counterforce to be reckoned with. In time, he becomes a threat to his own father’s power. The British, chief among them Alexander Burnes, learn the hard way: The wicked will not go unpunished.

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Sources:

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple

Afghanistan in the Age of Empires: The Great Game for South and Central Asia by Farrukh Husain

Siraj al-Tawarikh by Faiz Muhammad Kāteb and translated by Robert D. McChesney.

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