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The Georgia Experiment was the colonial-era policy prohibiting the ownership of slaves in the Georgia Colony. At the urging of Georgia's proprietor , General James Oglethorpe , and his fellow colonial trustees, the British Parliament formally codified prohibition in 1735, three years after the colony's founding.
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
A century of Georgia Agriculture, 1850–1950 (1954) Reidy; Joseph P. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880 University of North Carolina Press, Archived May 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
For background with respect to the region's Native Americans, see the Yamasee War (1715–1717) and Cherokee–American wars (1776–1795). Gordon Smith states, "'ante-bellum' Georgia was in an almost constant swirl of 'war or rumors of war'" due to the presence of Tories, Indians, bandits, privateers, and border disputes with France and Spain.
Gagra is transferred to Georgia; The rest of Sochinsky okrug is transferred to Russia; 1918 Armeno-Georgian War Democratic Republic of Georgia: First Republic of Armenia: Inconclusive With the intervention of Great Britain, a truce was concluded between Armenia and Georgia. 1918-1920 Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–1920) First Ossetian ...
Georgia played a key role in the southern theater of the war, serving as a staging ground for Patriot raids into British-controlled Florida in 1776 and 1778. The British captured Savannah in 1778, and despite the American and French forces' combined efforts, the Siege of Savannah in 1779 failed to reclaim the city.
The recorded History of Brunswick, Georgia dates to 1738, when a 1,000-acre (4 km 2) plantation was established along the Turtle River. By 1789, the city was recognized by President George Washington as having been one of five original ports of entry for the American colonies.
War Labor Board anthracite hearing. John L. Lewis (right), President of the United Mine Workers (UMW), confers with Thomas Kennedy (left), Secretary-Treasurer of the UMW, and Perry Tetlow (center), president of UMW District 17, at the War Labor Board conference 15 January 1943, about the anthracite coal miners' strike, 1943 January 15