James Oglethorpe
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title:
James Oglethorpe
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Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's "worthy poor" in the New World, initially focusing on those in debtors' prisons. Born to a prominent British family, Oglethorpe left college in England and a British Army commission to travel to France, where he attended a military academy before fighting und
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British Army officer and politician (1696–1785)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oglethorpe
date created:
2002-10-31T15:17:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T03:51:33Z
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