British Drums on the Southern Frontier : The Military Colonization of Georgia, 1733-1749 by Larry E. Ivers (1974, Hardcover)

University of North Carolina Press

0807812110

9780807812112

2056297

British Drums on the Southern Frontier : the Military Colonization of Georgia, 1733-1749

290 Pages

English

1974

United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)

Yes

History

Larry E. Ivers

Hardcover

1 in

2 Oz

9 in

6 in

Trade

73-004837

This lively account of the southern frontier is the first to give a detailed critical analysis of the 1733-1749 period during which Georgia served as a British military buffer colony between Spanish-dominated Florida and British-held South Carolina. Primarily a military history, British Drums on the Southern Frontier also emphasizes frontier politics and Indian diplomacy. Since James Oglethorpe, first as Georgia's civil leader and later as a British general, implemented--and frequently designed--Britain's imperial strategy on the southern frontier, his character and his political, diplomatic, and military activities are subjected to close scrutiny.