Source: A Report on Fort Diego, Palm Valley (ID98)
Author: Jones, William M. (ID63)
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1740-05-09 - 1740-05-09
Oglethorpe's Indians reported a fort halfway between Fort George Island and St. Augustine
(Jones)
On May 9, 1740, he (Oglethorpe) arrived on Fort George Island with a force consisting of around 448 troops and Indians. Crossing over the St. Johns River, the General sent out a group of Indians to reconnoiter the country to the South. The Indians returned late at night and reported the existence of a fort about halfway to St. Augustine. (The St. Augustine Expedition of 1740, The Colonial Records of South Carolina, (Columbia, South Carolina: 1954)
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