Fort Frederica National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service located on St. Simon's Island, Georgia. It preserves the archaeological remnants of a fort built by James Oglethorpe in 1736 to protect the southern boundary of the colony of Georgia from Spanish raids. The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States Federal Government agency that deals with all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation properties with various designations. ... St. ... James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 - 30 June 1785) was an English general and philanthropist, a founder of the state of Georgia. ... Events January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. ...
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http://www.nps.gov/fofr/index.htm - NPS web page for the site
FortFrederica on St. Simons Island served as the British military headquarters in colonial America.
Despite the smaller forts and batteries located to the south and west, the town's citadel and the heart of the frontier defense system was FortFrederica.
He traced out a fort with four bastions, "dug enough of the ditch and raised enough of the Rampart for a sample for the Men to work upon." Grass was cut into turf from the Indian old field and used in sodding the fort.
The establishment of FortFrederica at the mouth of the Altamaha River in 1736 marked the beginning of Oglethorpe's defensive scheme.
The majority of these men were stationed at FortFrederica, but Oglethorpe also posted 200 men farther south at Fort St. Andrews and a smaller company of perhaps 50 or 60 men on the southern end of Cumberland Island.
Forewarned of the invasion, Oglethorpe mounted a spirited defense of his main base at FortFrederica, culminating in the famous Battle of Bloody Marsh on St. Simons Island, in which his forces soundly defeated the Spanish.
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