James Edward Oglethorpe, (1696-1785) Commander in Chief of the Forces in Carolina and Georgia. Founder of the colony of Georgia, born in London on 22 December 1696. After a lifetime of active army service throughout Europe he proposed a new military American colony as a buffer to the southern Spanish ones. The new colony would function as soldier-farmers. He left for Georgia on October 1732 and operated as a paternalistic authoritarian and stirred up discontent for stunting Georgia’s economic development (by prohibiting slavery).
Reference:
Betty Wood, ‘Oglethorpe, James Edward (1696-1785)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2006 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20616 [accessed 13 August 2015]).
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