CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -James Edward Oglethorpe is credited with founding Georgia. The first group of British settlers landed at the site of the planned town, then known as Yamacraw Bluff, on the Savannah River, and Oglethorpe led them sixteen miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean on February 12, 1733.

Detailed explanation-2: -On June 9, 1732, the crown granted a charter to the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia. Oglethorpe himself led the first group of 114 colonists on the frigate Anne, landing at the site of today’s Savannah on February 1, 1733.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1733, General James Oglethorpe, acting on behalf of the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in England, landed a group of colonists and settled the town of Savannah in the new colony of Georgia.

Detailed explanation-4: -In February of 1733, Oglethorpe and his colonists finally settled near present-day Savannah on Yamacraw Bluff.

Detailed explanation-5: -On February 12, 1733, General James Oglethorpe and the first 114 colonists from Great Britain landed on Yamacraw Bluff and founded the Colony of Georgia.