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1 day ago · The School is named after General James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785), an English soldier and philanthropist who entered Parliament in 1722. In 1733 he founded the American State of Georgia. He was Governor for thirteen years. In 1744 he married Elizabeth Wright of Cranham Hall, Cranham, and came to live at the hall.
5 days ago · Oglethorpe, James Edward; Georgia James Edward Oglethorpe and English settlers meeting Native Americans after arriving in what became the U.S. state of Georgia. (more) A trust for establishing the colony of Georgia was granted a charter by George II (for whom the colony was named) in 1732, long after the large English migrations of the 17th century to North America .
3 days ago · Still, others such as James Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony of Georgia, also retained political motivations for the removal of slavery. Prohibiting slavery through the 1735 Georgia Experiment in part to prevent Spanish partnership with Georgia's runaway slaves, Oglethorpe eventually revoked the act in 1750 after the Spanish's defeat in the Battle of Bloody Marsh eight years prior.
5 days ago · The same thing is said also of his contemporary, General Oglethorpe, who died in 1785, having lived to be upwards of ninety, and who, as Macaulay tells us, had "shot birds in this neighbourhood in Queen Anne's reign." The Conduit Field in old days was a great "meet" for the Nimrods of the City.
3 days ago · The proprietors of Georgia, led by James Oglethorpe, were wealthy philanthropic English gentlemen. It was Oglethorpe’s plan to transport imprisoned debtors to Georgia, where they could rehabilitate themselves by profitable labor and make money for the proprietors in the process.
3 days ago · Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery. Erwin Rommel. Battles of El-Alamein, linked battles in World War II, fought from July 1–27 and October 23—November 11, 1942, pitting German and Italian against British, Australian, New Zealander, South African, and Indian forces in coastal central Egypt and resulting in a pivotal Allied victory.
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3 days ago · Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer. [ 1 ] He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s. Active in both Britain and Hollywood, Howard played Ashley Wilkes in ...
