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Why is this important?
1. Owing largely to the “Providential” destruction of the Spanish Armada in 1588, by 1700
Protestant England had settled all the east coast of North America down to the
Savannah River, which is the northern border of the area we now call Georgia, and they
claimed the territory in Spanish occupied Florida south of the City of Saint Augustine
(Blue Lines).
2. However, the Spanish claimed the same the territory up to parts of South Carolina
(Green Lines) but had only settled as far as Saint Augustine.
3. In order to assert their claim the English needed to occupy and defend the part of the
disputed territory they claimed (Pink area).
4. By 1729 some things were brewing in England that would initiate that effort.
