USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In the 1730s, England founded the last of its colonies in North America. The project was the brain child of James Oglethorpe, a former army officer.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1733, British military leader James Oglethorpe established the last of the 13 original British colonies, Georgia, named after King George II.

Detailed explanation-4: -James Oglethorpe was a British general, member of Parliament, philanthropist, humanitarian, was the founder of the colony of Georgia in America in 1733. He was a social reformer in England founding Georgia, after a grant from King George II, to resettle Britain’s poor, especially those in debtors’ prison.

Detailed explanation-5: -Oglethorpe imagined the Georgia colony to be an ideal agrarian society; he opposed slavery and allowed people of all religions to settle in Savannah even though the charter stated that Catholics and Jewish people were not allowed.