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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.
The State of Georgia The City of Savannah, And the Patriotic Societies of the State To the Memory of The Great Soldier Eminent Statesman, and Famous Philanthropist, General James Edward Oglethorpe who in This City on the 12th Day of February A. D. 1733 Founded and Established the Colony of Georgia
The settlement was incorporated as the town of Nashville by North Carolina in 1784. It went on to become the capital of Tennessee upon its admission as the 16th state in 1796. It was chartered as a city in 1806, and is the largest city in the state in the modern era.
Dunbar subsequently served as Oglethorpe's aide in Georgia and in Oglethorpe's campaign against the Spanish in 1745. Oglethorpe went to Georgia in 1736, with the approval of his fellow Trustees, to found two new settlements on the frontiers, Frederica on St. Simons Island and Augusta at the headwaters of the Savannah River in Indian country.
Oglethorpe led the expedition that established Georgia as the last of Britain’s 13 American colonies in February 1733. ... Thurmond became an attorney and has served for decades in state and ...
Former mayor of Memphis, Tennessee 1982, state legislator, bishop, pastor, attorney and mortician James Oglethorpe Patterson Jr . (28 May 1935 – 25 June 2011) was a Holiness Pentecostal minister in the Church of God in Christ and a former mayor of Memphis, Tennessee , the first African-American to hold the office.
The written word can have a lasting impact. That’s what happened in 1996 when Athens native Michael Thurmond joined a Georgia delegation to England to participate in the 300 th birthday ...
Given a heightened threat of Spanish invasion, Oglethorpe sought to increase his southern defenses. Accompanied by rangers and two Native American guides, Oglethorpe picked St. Simons Island as the site for a new town and fort. In 1734, Oglethorpe convinced the Parliament and the colonial trustees to pay for a military garrison at the fort.