James Killpatrick.
An Impartial Account of the Late Expedition against St. Augustine under General Oglethorpe.…
London: J. Huggonson, 1742.
Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (126)
Expedition Against St. Augustine
The War of Jenkins’s Ear (1739–1748) took its name from Robert Jenkins, captain of an English ship, who claimed Spanish coast guards had cut off his ear in 1731. The story so aroused public opinion that England declared war on its commercial rival, Spain. During the conflict, Georgia Governor James Oglethorpe invaded Florida in 1743, and, with the help of Indian allies, captured several forts and marched “to the gates of St. Augustine” where his Indian allies captured and killed forty Spaniards under the very walls of the fort.