Source: The Governorship of Spanish Florida (ID122)
Author: TePaske, John J. (ID86)
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1738-08-31 - 1738-08-31
Lower Creeks attacked Pupo
The War of Jenkins’s Ear in Florida: The Defensive Stage
While negotiations were going on in Europe over the Georgia-Florida boundary issue, the southern frontier grew restive. Under Oglethorpe’s sponsorship bands of Lower Creeks began making raids on settlements in Florida and harassing Spanish soldiers and Indians west of Saint Augustine. Spurred on by promises of rich rewards for Spanish scalps, the Lower Creeks attacked Fort Pupo in the summer of 1738, damaging the stockade and killing two Spanish soldiers. [Note 20: gov of FL to king 8/31/1738]
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