Tour Scotland 4K Autumn travel video, with Scottish bagpipes music, of a road trip drive East on the B846 route on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the Highlands of Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. The Clans who once lived in this area included the Clan MacDonald, Clan Menzies, Clan MacGregor, Clan MacDougall, Clan Cameron, Clan Robertson and Clan Stewart. Part of this road was originally built by General Wade in the 1720s as part of his military road connecting Crieff and Inverness. A network of military roads, sometimes called General Wade's Military Roads, was constructed in the Scottish Highlands during the middle part of the 18th century in the wake of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. Their purpose, much like the network of roads constructed by the Romans more than 1,500 years earlier, was to suppress and exert control over the local population. The engineered roads of the Roman period did not extend into the Highlands, which was where these later roads were constructed. General Wade was sent to Scotland in July 1724. He reported back in December that " more than half of the 22,000 men capable of bearing arms in the Highlands and Islands were ready to create new troubles and rise in arms to favour the Pretender ". In his report Wade pointed out that government troops would benefit from improved roads and river crossings to put down the rebels. King George I then appointed Wade as Commander in chief, North Britain. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30. The equinox at which the sun approaches the Southern Hemisphere, marking the start of astronomical Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The time of this occurrence is approximately September 22.
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