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Fort St. Andrews
Fort St. Andrews was a British colonial coastal fortification built on Cumberland Island, Georgia in 1736. The fort was built by the British as part of a buffer against the Spanish Florida and the colonies to the north. The fort was abandoned and later destroyed by the Spanish in mid-1742.
== Background ==
In 1732, General James Oglethorpe led the colonization of Georgia for Great Britain and chose Savannah as the principal port for the colony. The establishment of the Georgia colony had been an issue of contention between Britain and Spain since its foundation. The Spanish claimed the territory for its own colony of Florida and disputed what it regarded as an illegal occupation by the British settlers. The building of Fort Frederica on St. Simons Island (near the mouth of the Altamaha River) in 1736 marked the beginning of General Oglethorpe's defensive plan for Georgia. His thinking was influenced heavily by Georgia's maritime geography, which consists of an uninterrupted series of coastal barrier islands. The island chain forms a natural water route, known as the inland passage, which offers protection from unpredictable weather and the harsh conditions of the open sea.
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