Today Britain was born with the Act of Union — Transcript
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- 0:01Today in 1707, the Act of Union united
- 0:05England and Scotland. The real reason
- 0:08England and Scotland joined forces
- 0:11wasn't about friendship. It was because
- 0:13Scotland went completely broke. They
- 0:16lost half their money in a failed
- 0:18attempt to build a colony in Panama.
- 0:21England swooped in with a bailout deal,
- 0:24but with strings attached. Unite the
- 0:27Kingdoms or face total collapse.
- 0:30Scottish Parliament had no choice but to
- 0:32accept. They took the money, signed the
- 0:35deal, and just like that, Great Britain
- 0:37was born. Wild. How one business failure
- 0:40changed the map forever.
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