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Georgia--Some
of their fleet appear on the coast--Oglethorpe prepares for
defence--Applies to South Carolina for assistance--Spaniards attack
Fort William--Dangerous situation of Oglethorpe--Spanish fleet enter
the harbor and land on St. Simons--In three successive engagements
they are defeated--A successful stratagem--Enemy defeated at Bloody
Marsh--Retire and attack Fort William, which is bravely defended by

Ensign Stewart--Spanish forces, repulsed in all their assaults, abandon
the invasion in dismay, and return to St. Augustine and to Cuba,

CHAPTER XVI.
Oglethorpe, informed that the Spaniards were making preparations for
a renewal of hostilities, takes measures to repel them--Meets with an
alarming accident--Lands on the Florida side of St. John's--Proceeds
towards St. Augustine--The Spanish do not venture out to attack
him--Returns to the Islands--sees that the Forts are repaired--Takes
passage to England to attend a Court Martial on an insidious charge
against him by Lieutenant Cook--Is honorably acquitted, and Cook is
dismissed from the service,

CHAPTER XVII.
Oglethorpe's residence in England--Marriage--Military
appointments--A Major General under the Duke of Cumberland for the
suppression of the rebellion in 1745--Arraigned at a Court Martial and
acquitted--Domestic and social life, and character--Death,
Obituary notice of Mrs. ELIZABETH OGLETHORPE, with extracts
from her Will,
Account of Carolina and Georgia by OGLETHORPE,
APPENDIX.
I. Family of Oglethorpe,
II. Discussion respecting the birth-day of the subject of these
memorials,
III. Notices of the Earl of Peterborough, and of Dean Berkeley,

IV. Reference to the debates in Parliament in which Oglethorpe took a
part,
V. Prison-visiting Committee,
VI. Release of insolvent debtors,
VII. Sir Thomas Lombe's mill for winding silk,
VIII. Case of Captain Porteous,
IX. Trustees for settling Georgia,
X. Oglethorpe's disinterestedness in the undertaking,
XI. Advertisement of Governor Johnson of South Carolina, and letter
of the Governor and Council to Oglethorpe,
XII. Account of the Creeks,
XIII. Account of the Indians in Georgia by Oglethorpe,
XIV. Memoir of the Duke of Argyle,
XV. Saltzburgers,
XVI. Arrival of these persecuted German Protestants in Georgia,
XVII. Settlement of Moravians,
XVIII. Scout-boat and Channels,
XIX. Uchee Indians,
XX. A mutiny in the Camp, and attempt at assassination,
XXI. Memoir of Tomo-Chichi,
XXII. General Oglethorpe's manifesto,

XXIII. Fate of Colonel Palmer,
XXIV. Account of the siege of St. Augustine,
XXV. Spanish invasion,
XXVI. Order for a Thanksgiving,
XXVII. List of Spanish forces employed in the invasion of Georgia,
and of Oglethorpe's to resist them,
XXVIII. History of the silk culture in Georgia, written by W.B. Stevens,
M.D., of Savannah,
INDEX,

CHAPTER I.
Parentage of Oglethorpe--Birth--Education--Christian
Name--Education--Military Profession and Promotion--In the Suite of
the Earl of Peterborough--Service under Prince Eugene of
Savoy--Elected Member of Parliament--Visits a Gentleman in
Prison--Moves in the House of Commons for a redress of the rigors of
Prison Discipline--Appointed on the Committee--Extracts from his
Speeches in Parliament.
James Oglethorpe, founder of the Colony of Georgia in North
America,--a distinguished philanthropist, general, and statesman,--was
the son of Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, of Godalming, in the County of
Surrey, Great Britain, by Eleanor, his wife, daughter of Richard Wall,
Esq. of Rogane, in Ireland.[1] There has been, hitherto, great
uncertainty with respect to the year, the month, and the day of his
nativity; I have, however, what I deem good authority for deciding it to
have been the twenty-first day of December, one thousand six hundred
and eighty-eight.[2]
[Footnote 1: For some account of the Family, see Appendix I.]

[Footnote 2: Appendix II.]
It is asserted in Thoresby's History of Leeds, page 255, that "he had two
Christian names, James-Edward, supposed to have been bestowed upon
him in compliment to the Pretender;" and he is so named on his
sepulchral monument. But, as he always used but one; as he was
enregistered on entering College at Oxford, simply James; and, as the
double name is not inserted in any public act, commission, document,
printed history, or mention of him in his life time, that I have ever met
with, I have not thought proper to adopt it.
When sixteen years of age, on the 9th of July, 1704, he was admitted a
member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford,[1] where his brother Lewis
received his education. It seems, however, that, after the example of
that brother, as also of his brother Theophilus, he early relinquished a
literary, for a military profession; and aspired to make his way in the
world, "tam Marte quam Minerva."
[Footnote 1: The record of his admittatur, in the University Register,
is,--"1704, Jul. 9, term. S. Trin. Jacobus Oglethorpe, e C.C.C. 16.
Theoph. f. Sti. Jacobi, Lond. Equ. Aur. filius natu minor." That is, "_In
Trinity Term, July 9, 1704_, James Oglethorpe, aged 16, youngest son
of Theophilus Oglethorpe, _of St. James's, London, was admitted into
Corpus Christi College_."]
His first commission was that of Ensign; and it is dated in 1710; and he
bore that rank in the army when peace was proclaimed