Qualla: Battle of Bloody Marsh https://qualla.com/battle-of-bloody-marsh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/w/1/battle-of-bloody-marsh-wp/site-bloody-marsh-batt.jpg Qualla: Battle of Bloody Marsh https://qualla.com/battle-of-bloody-marsh Battle of Bloody Marsh: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-bloody-marsh/ Photo credit Bubba73 (talk), Jud McCranie, CC BY-SA 3.0. The war started with an ear. In 1731, Spanish coast guards boarded the British brig Rebecca off Florida and found its captain, Robert Jenkins, smuggling. They cut off his ear for piracy. Eight years later, Parliament dusted off the nearly forgotten incident to rally public opinion, and Britain declared war on Spain. The conflict they called the War of Jenkins' Ear would stretch from the Caribbean to the Georgia coast, and on a rainy July afternoon in 1742, it came down to a handful of British soldiers crouching behind palmetto trees on St. Simons Island, waiting for the Spanish to walk into range.

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/w/1/battle-of-bloody-marsh-wp/djw1-battle-of-bloody-marsh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Bloody Marsh: Oglethorpe's Gamble on the Golden Isles https://qualla.com/battle-of-bloody-marsh/ Photo credit Bubba73 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. James Oglethorpe founded Georgia in 1733 as a place for England's poor debtors to start over. But the colony sat squarely in the contested territory between British South Carolina and Spanish Florida - land Europeans called the "Debatable Land." Oglethorpe understood that Georgia...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/w/1/battle-of-bloody-marsh-wp/djw1-battle-of-bloody-marsh-oglethorpes-gamble-on-the-golden-isles.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Bloody Marsh: Five Thousand Against a Thousand https://qualla.com/battle-of-bloody-marsh/ Photo credit Bubba73 (Jud McCranie), CC BY-SA 4.0. Spanish Governor Manuel de Montiano assembled an invasion force of up to 5,000 men, with roughly 2,000 ground assault troops. Oglethorpe had fewer than 1,000 - regulars, militia, and Native American allies. On July 5, 1742, Montiano landed nearly 1,900 men from 36 ships near Gasc...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/w/1/battle-of-bloody-marsh-wp/djw1-battle-of-bloody-marsh-five-thousand-against-a-thousand.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Bloody Marsh: Muskets in the Marsh https://qualla.com/battle-of-bloody-marsh/ Photo credit Jud McCranie, aka Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0. Pursuing the retreating Spanish, the British advance party ran into fresh enemy reinforcements and fell back. At a bend in the road, Lieutenants Southerland and Macoy ordered their men to stop. The soldiers took cover in a semicircle behind trees and palmettos around a clearing, ...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/w/1/battle-of-bloody-marsh-wp/djw1-battle-of-bloody-marsh-muskets-in-the-marsh.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Bloody Marsh: The Letter That Won the War https://qualla.com/battle-of-bloody-marsh/ Photo credit Bubba73 (Jud McCranie), CC BY-SA 4.0. Oglethorpe was not finished. Learning that a French deserter had fled to the Spanish camp, he feared the man would reveal how pitifully small the British force actually was. So Oglethorpe crafted a deception. He wrote a letter to the deserter, addressing him as if he were a Briti...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/w/1/battle-of-bloody-marsh-wp/djw1-battle-of-bloody-marsh-the-letter-that-won-the-war.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Bloody Marsh: The Marsh Remembers https://qualla.com/battle-of-bloody-marsh/ Photo credit Bubba73 Jud McCranie, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the war in 1748 and formally recognized Georgia as a British colony. Spain ratified the arrangement in the Treaty of Madrid. Georgia's position was further cemented in 1763 when Spain ceded Florida to Britain under the Treaty of Paris. Oglethor...

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