enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. James Oglethorpe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oglethorpe

    Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 [1] – 30 June 1785) was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America.

  3. Fort Frederica National Monument - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Frederica_National...

    A town of up to 1,000 colonial residents had grown up outside the fort; it was laid out following principles of the Oglethorpe Plan for towns in the Georgia Colony. [5] The town was named Frederica, after Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of King George II. The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.

  4. Georgia Day - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Day

    Georgia Day is the holiday which the U.S. state of Georgia recognizes in honor of its colonial founding as the Province of Georgia.On February 12, 1733 [NS] [1] James Oglethorpe landed the first settlers in the Anne, at what was to become Georgia's first city (and later the first state capital), Savannah.

  5. Athens native Michael Thurmond writes book on Georgia's ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/athens-native-michael-thurmond...

    That’s what happened in 1996 when Athens native Michael Thurmond joined a Georgia delegation to England to participate in the 300 th birthday celebration of James Oglethorpe, the founder of the ...

  6. Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustees_for_the...

    The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees, was a body organized by James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison conditions in Britain. After being granted a royal charter in 1732, Oglethorpe led the first group of colonists to the new ...

  7. A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder ...

    www.aol.com/black-author-takes-look-georgia...

    Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward Oglethorpe left him stunned speechless. Within a lengthy tribute to the Englishman who died in 1785, the ...

  8. A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder ...

    www.aol.com/news/black-author-takes-look-georgia...

    Oglethorpe led the expedition that established Georgia as the last of Britain's 13 American colonies in February 1733. A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed ...

  9. Siege of St. Augustine (1740) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_St._Augustine_(1740)

    On 24 June Oglethorpe began a 27-day bombardment. On 26 June a sortie by 300 [7] Spanish and free blacks attacked Fort Mose held by 120 Highlander Rangers and 30 Indians. In the Siege of Fort Mose, the garrison was taken by surprise with 68 killed and 34 captured while the Spanish loss was 10 killed. [8]