Source: Collections of the Georgia Historical Society - Vol 7 (ID89)
Author: Georgia Historical Society (ID12)
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1712-01-01 - 1712-12-31
peace treaty, after which Oglethorpe served at Danube
From COLLECTIONS OF THE Georgia Historical Society, Vol. VII.
ADDRESS OF HON. WALTER G. CHARLTON.
...Influence and opportunity brought him a commission, in his fifteenth year, under Marlborough, and after the peace of 1712 he served under Prince Eugene in the campaigns on the Danube. There could have been no better martial schooling. But in this English boy was something beyond military enthusiasm. Working in his active brain was the constructive force which moulds statesmen, and so directs and rules the destinies of nations.
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