A history of the American people . OGLETHORPES ORDER FOR SUPPLIES iards were so near at hand that they could shoot themfrom the windows of the houses that stood within thefort. Why, then, we shall beat them out of theirfort, and shall have houses ready built to live in! criedthe men in kilts, very cheerily, and went on to theirsettlement. Fortunately it was seven years before the war withSpain came which every one had known from the firstto be inevitable; and by that time the little colony wasready enough. Georgias territory stretched upon thecoast from the Savannah to the Altamaha, and Fromth
A history of the American people . OGLETHORPES ORDER FOR SUPPLIES iards were so near at hand that they could shoot themfrom the windows of the houses that stood within thefort. Why, then, we shall beat them out of theirfort, and shall have houses ready built to live in! criedthe men in kilts, very cheerily, and went on to theirsettlement. Fortunately it was seven years before the war withSpain came which every one had known from the firstto be inevitable; and by that time the little colony wasready enough. Georgias territory stretched upon thecoast from the Savannah to the Altamaha, and Fromthe coast ran back, west and northwest, to the sourcesof those rivers; from their sources due westward to A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE the South Seas. Savannah was thus planted atthe very borders of South, Carolina. New settlers wereplaced, as they came, some in Savannah, many bythe upper reaches of the river. The Highlanders hadtheir post of danger and honor upon the Altamaha;and before war came new settlers, additional arms. 11 Q U. SAVANNAH IN 1754 and stores, and serviceable fortifications had beenplaced at St. Simons Island at the mouth of the Alta-maha. Every settlement was in some sort a fortifiedmilitary post. The first settlers had been drilled inarms by sergeants of the Royal Guards in Londonevery day between the time of their assembling andthe time of their departure. Arms and ammunitionwere as abundant almost as agricultural tools andfood stores in the cargoes carried out. Negro slavery66
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