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4 unusual facts about Battle of Bloody Marsh


Battle of Bloody Marsh

In the ensuing months, Oglethorpe considered counter-attacks against Florida, but circumstances were not favourable.

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In the 1730s, Spain and Great Britain were disputing control of the border between Georgia and La Florida, where the Spanish had several settlements and forts.

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The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the war in 1748 and recognised the status of Georgia as a British colony, formally ratified by Spain in the subsequent Treaty of Madrid.

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Oglethorpe subsequently recruited a company of Scots from Inverness, to migrate with their families to settle at Darien (briefly named "New Inverness") on the mainland, at the mouth of the Altamaha River.



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