biography
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Oglethorpe, James Edward
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1696–1785)
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| biography:
| Army officer, born in London, UK. He sat in parliament (1722–54), and in 1732 founded the colony of Georgia in North America, where debtors from English jails and persecuted Austrian Protestants could find refuge. War with Spain was declared in 1739. He invaded Florida (1740), and repulsed a Spanish invasion of Georgia (1742). In 1743 he left the colony to repel malicious charges. He was tried and acquitted after the 1745 Jacobite Rising for failing as major-general to overtake Prince Charles Stuart's army. |
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