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Establishing the Georgia Colony, 1732-1750. In the 1730s, England founded the last of its colonies in North America. The project was the brain child of James Oglethorpe, a former army officer. After Oglethorpe left the army, he devoted himself to helping the poor and debt-ridden people of London, whom he suggested settling in America.
However, Naples and Sicily were conquered by Charles, Duke of Parma (of the Spanish Bourbons) during the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, he was then installed as King of Naples and Sicily from 1735.
By 1750, Georgia had become a slave-holding colony like its neighbor South Carolina. This image of the year-old settlement in 1734 shows a grid of streets and squares carefully planned out by Oglethorpe.
On 20 January 1734 Charles declared himself of full age – therefore out of any tutelage – and marched from Florence to Naples. In Monterotondo he addressed the Neapolitans a proclamation of Philip V supporting the enterprise: on 10 May he entered in triumph to Naples.
Salzburgers and Their Descendants is the original account of the lives and history of a colony of German Protestants who emigrated to Georgia in 1734. Following their arrival, they settled twenty-five miles north of Savannah, in Ebenezer, to create new lives for themselves in a “New World” of religious freedom.
In 1734 the Spanish prince Don Carlos de Borbón (later King Charles III) conquered Naples and Sicily, which were then governed by the Spanish Bourbons as a separate kingdom. During the 18th century the Bourbon kings, in the spirit of “enlightened despotism,” sponsored reforms to rectify social and political injustices and to modernize the ...
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His armies conquered Naples in 1734 during the War of the Polish Succession. In 1738, the Treaty of Vienna recognized Naples as an independent kingdom under a cadet branch of the Spanish Bourbons.
