Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 – 30 June 1785) was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best...
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Oglethorpe University is a private college in Brookhaven, Georgia, United States. It was chartered in 1835 and named in honor of General James Edward...
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small green parks to create integrated, walkable neighborhoods. James Edward Oglethorpe founded the Georgia Colony, and the town of Savannah, in 1733....
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the colony of Georgia. It was adapted from the Oglethorpe family crest. "James Edward Oglethorpe". Oglethorpe University. Retrieved 2018-02-01. v t e...
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The James Oglethorpe Monument is a public monument in Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia, United States. It honors James Oglethorpe, the founder of the...
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immediately. The fort was renamed Fort Oglethorpe in 1885, in honor of Georgia's founder Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe. Between 1885 and 1905, the fort...
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continued working for the Jacobite cause. Eleanor Oglethorpe was the mother of James Edward Oglethorpe, the philanthropist, social reformer, politician...
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America, or simply the Georgia Trustees, was a body organized by James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison...
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Eleanor Oglethorpe (1684–1775), later Marquise de Mézières, was an English Jacobite who settled in France after James II was deposed in the Glorious Revolution...
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on behalf of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, for the remainder of her life. Anne Oglethorpe's mother, Eleanor Oglethorpe, was an employee...
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23 April 2013. Thaddeus Mason Harris; James Edward Oglethorpe (1841). Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe: Founder of the Colony of Georgia in North...
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formed a large majority." "James Edward Oglethorpe". United States National Park Service. "James Edward Oglethorpe". Oglethorpe. "Establishing the Georgia...
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Boar's Head Feast (section Oglethorpe University)
associates the observance with the arms of the university's namesake, James Edward Oglethorpe, depicting three boars' heads and a fourth as a crest. Through...
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Downtown Savannah largely retains the founder James Oglethorpe's original town plan, a design known as the Oglethorpe Plan. During the 1996 Summer Olympics hosted...
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with a plaque stating: "Original 1733 burial plot allotted by James Edward Oglethorpe to the Savannah Jewish Community". On November 3, 1761, George III...
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Georgia soon after its founding in 1733. The colony's founder, James Edward Oglethorpe, fended off repeated attempts by South Carolina merchants and land...
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(including General James Oglethorpe), set sail to the Americas. On February 12, 1733, after a brief stay at Charles Town, South Carolina, Oglethorpe and his settlers...
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Nunes (1668–1744) was allowed by the colony's founder, General James Edward Oglethorpe, to begin treating the ill. By the time the middle-aged Portuguese...
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Owen Oglethorpe (c. 1502 – 31 December 1559) was an English academic and Bishop of Carlisle, 1557–1559. Oglethorpe was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England...
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statesman, philanthropist and Freemason James Edward Oglethorpe on February 21, 1734. Joseph Habersham's father James Habersham, both of his brothers, and...
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Georgia, the bluff is most notable for being the site upon which General James Oglethorpe arrived to settle the British colony of Georgia. The area was originally...
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James Oglethorpe does not appear on the list, even though he and other Georgia Trustees prohibited slavery in the Province of Georgia. Oglethorpe later...
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with a plaque stating: "Original 1733 burial plot allotted by James Edward Oglethorpe to the Savannah Jewish Community". Levi Sheftall's father, Benjamin...
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with a plaque stating: "Original 1733 burial plot allotted by James Edward Oglethorpe to the Savannah Jewish Community". The founding date of the Mordecai...
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area. The street is named for the founder of the Savannah colony, James Edward Oglethorpe. The street is entirely within Savannah Historic District, a National...
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Pacific Ocean. The colony's Corporate charter was granted to General James Oglethorpe on April 21, 1732, by George II, for whom the colony was named. The...
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settlement by British colonists after the founding of the colony by James Edward Oglethorpe in 1732. The early colonists were mostly English though there were...
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the Enlightenment criticised it for violating the rights of man. James Edward Oglethorpe was the first to act on the Enlightenment case against slavery...
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Americans (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001) "History - James Edward Oglethorpe - GeorgiaInfo". georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-26...
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boars are seen on coats of arms of Lockhart, Grimsby, Healy, and James Edward Oglethorpe. In addition, the Sullivan-Mor coat of arms bears a boar, and the...
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