. Der spanische offizielle Bericht des Angriffs auf die Kolonie von Georgien, in Amerika, und seiner Niederlage auf St. Simons Island von General James Oglethorpe . ederica. In der Zwischenzeit wurden seine Rationen reduziert, er hatte seine Waffen nicht an Land gebracht, und Gerüchte beunruhigten ihn.in diesen Meerengen fiel er zu rufen Räte des Krieges und so verloren. Dass er nur eine echte Anstrengung unternommen hatte, um sein Ziel zu erreichen, dass, trotz des Scheiterns dieser Anstrengung, zögerlich Oglethorpe überzählten, dass jedenfalls seine Flotte im wesentlichen intakt war, diese Dinge keinen Eindruck auf ihn machten. Seine einzige Sorge war, sich zurückzuziehen. Und doch s

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. The Spanish official account of the attack on the colony of Georgia, in America, and of its defeat on St. Simons Island by General James Oglethorpe . ederica. Meanwhile his rations were being reduced, he had not got his guns ashore, and rumors unnerved him.In these straits he fell to calling councils of war and so waslost. That he had made only one genuine effort to reachhis objective, that in spite of the failure of this effort, hestill outnumbered Oglethorpe, that in any case his fleet wassubstantially intact, these things made no impression onhim. His one concern was to withdraw. And yet so blindwas he to his own shortcomings that he attributes his fail-ure to the Almighty and actually asks his King to approvehis conduct of affairs and to bestow honors upon him. Tobe sure, he had razed a few earthworks evacuated by theirgarrisons, carried off a few guns spiked by the enemy, burned a few houses abandoned by the inhabitants. Andhere we may now well leave him, recounting his victoriesover inanimate things, and glossing his failure, for this fail-ure made the State of Georgia possible. C. DeW. W.West Point, New York, October 19, 1912.. GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE INDIES: AUDIENCE OFSAN DOMINGO, LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA. Report Upon the Expulsion of the English from the TerritoriesThey Have Usurped in Florida, and Survey of Limits andIncidences. From 1738 to 1743; Case 87, Drawer 1, File 3. Affidavit of Juan Castelnau, a Prisoner in Georgia. Havana, July 24, 1739.*Don Juan Francisco de Guemes y Horcasitas transmitsthe depositions made by Juan Castelnau, a native of LosPasages in Guipuzcoa, on the present state of the Settle-ments of New Georgia, where he was held a prisoner for 18months, and of its fortifications, forces and establishments. Sir: Juan Castelnau, who says he is a native of Los Pas-ages in Guipuzcoa, having come from Cartagena in this dis-patch boat now on her way to those kingdoms [i. e. Castileand Leon, or Spain] with the order and permission consist-ing in a

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