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Oglethorpe and colonial Georgia : a history, 1733-1783 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, David Lee, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, [2006]
Subjects:
Oglethorpe, James, > 1696-1785.
Governors > Georgia > Biography.
Georgia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Georgia > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
Table of Contents:
  • Oglethorpe and the Georgia inspiration
  • The founding of Savannah
  • The Spanish and Georgia
  • A Georgia victory and charter surrender
  • The royal period begins
  • The Wright era and patriot crisis
  • Georgia heads to revolution
  • A frontier war in Georgia
  • The fall of Savannah
  • Patriots regroup and D'Estaing arrives
  • Siege forces gather at Savannah
  • The siege of Savannah
  • An occupied Georgia
  • A fifty-year colonial legacy
  • Appendix A. The first English settlers to Georgia
  • Appendix B. Georgia constitution of 1777
  • Appendix C. Colonial Georgia timeline, 1733-1783.