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yankees13 | 18:35 Tue 23rd Aug 2005 | History
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How was the leader that founded the colony of Georgia?  What were the reasons it was founded?
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Coluld be General James Oglethorpe......Try to google that name
18:51 Tue 23rd Aug 2005
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he was a penal reformer from Surrey. It was a sort of penal colony but aimed at rehabilitation and giving people a new start.
20:33 Tue 23rd Aug 2005
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Kosoro is correct.  The King of England didn't want the Spanish to expand their terriotories so he had Oglethorpe take criminals and the drunken poor to creat the colony of Georgia to halt the Spanish expansion in the Americas.
23:47 Fri 09th Sep 2005

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