In the last years of the 17th Century, Scotland, a small independent nation with no military presence and a faltering economy strived to compete with the nations of Europe in the scramble for world trade, gold and riches.

They raised a huge sum of money to build ships, to sail to the end of the World and to create an Empire in the name of Scotland.

This screenplay describes those events and the subsequent fallout from its failure. The pain and misery suffered during the expedition, from the weather and the determined Spanish, to the final bail-out/rescue of the Scottish debt by their age-old enemy: England.

Financial bubble; scandal; high-seas adventure and the collapse of a proud nation. One man sat at the centre of all of this: William Paterson. Around this extraordinary man, the story revolves.

Darien – The Scottish Empire

This web site has been established for the publication of the screenplay of the expedition to Central America by the Company of Scotland at the end of the 17th Century.

This is a contact page with some basic contact information and a contact form.