Fort Frederica National Monument, national monument in southeastern Georgia, on the western shore of Saint Simons Island, established in 1936. The monument contains the ruins of Fort Frederica, built beginning in 1736 by James Oglethorpe, founder of the colony of Savannah (in what is now Georgia), and other British colonists as a defense against Spanish forces in Florida. In 1742 a Spanish force dispatched from Cuba was turned back by forces under Oglethorpe’s leadership in the Battle of Bloody Marsh, which took place near the fort. Area, 98 hectares (241 acres).

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