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Oglethorpe appealed to SC for help
Source: The Debatable Land #557
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To Oglethorpe the San Juan was only a means to an end. Vernon had won fame by capturing Puerto Bello; his was the task to take San Agustin. Hurrying to Charleston he raised 500 men under Colonel Vanderdusen; and with Commodore Pearce he arranged for cooperation with the coast fleet. In April he welcomed a new contingent of Indian allies. In all his force consisted of about 2,000 men.2 [Note 2 For Oglethorpe's appeals to South Carolina, see Oglethorpe to Bull, December 29, 1739, in Harris, Voyages and Travels, II, 338-340; S. C. Hist. Soc. Col., II, 271; Stevens, History of Georgia, 1,170; Jones, History of Georgia, I, 327; Wright, Memoir of James Oglethorpe, 232-233, 238-243.]
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