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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
crusaders, the planters, from Spanish buccaneers of the south,
who were seriously threatening the Carolina colonists. The
"baby" colony became known also as the "Sentinel" colony. At
the decisive battle of "Bloody Marsh," on St. Simons Island,
July 7, 1742, Spain lost a continent, and Oglethorpe, his task com
pleted, sheathed his sword, devoted another year to the adminis
trative construction of Ris ideal colony, returned to England, mar
ried happily, and spent the balance of his long life in honored
activities at home. Thus endeth all true romances.
In the ten years of Oglethorpe©s paternal governorship, Georgia
had grown strong in numbers, in agriculture, commerce, thrift
and high ideals of humanity. With thirty-five families, 130 in all,
the city of Savannah, on the Yamacraw Bluffs, had been founded
in January 1733, and as an early example of civic planning, it
remains to-day the highest type of the City Beautiful.
Sir James Edward Oglethorpe was swayed by lofty impulses,
and had the constructive ability and strength of character to
mould men to his liking. In philanthropy and practical socialism
he was far in advance of his times. He was as well a soldier,
statesman, scholar, and conscientious exponent of Christian prin
ciples. Georgia is justly proud of her founder, and of the
exalted ideals of government he inaugurated. Together with the
board of trustees he represented, he served without pecuniary
compensation, and spent freely of his own funds in the scheme
OGLETHORPE MONUMENT, CITY OP SAVANNAH, ERECTED IN 1909
Commemorating Philan
thropic seal of the city's
Founder.