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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Oglethorpe, James Edward
 
SYLLABICATION:O·gle·thorpe
PRONUNCIATION:  gl-thôrp
DATES:1696–1785
English soldier, philanthropist, and colonizer. He secured a charter for the colony of Georgia (1732) as a refuge for unemployed debtors newly released from prison.
 
 
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