CLASS 10
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along the Chattahoochee River
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along the Flint River
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along the Savannah River
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along the Mississippi River
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In February of 1733, Oglethorpe and his colonists finally settled near present-day Savannah on Yamacraw Bluff.
Detailed explanation-3: -Oglethorpe argued that the colony would solve two problems. First, it would remove some of the unemployed people from England and give them work in the New World. Second, it would provide a military buffer between Spanish Florida and the productive English colony of South Carolina.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Establishing Roots Established in 1733 when General James Oglethorpe and 120 fellow passengers on the ship Anne landed on a bluff along the Savannah River, Oglethorpe named the 13th and final American colony Georgia after England’s King George II. Savannah became the first city of this new land.