Fort Frederica National Monument

Fort Frederica National Monument, a 216-acre site off the coast of Georgia, was established in 1936 to preserve the remains of a fort that Great Britain began building in 1736. That fort was to defend the colonists in Savannah from attacks by Spanish forces based in Florida and Cuba. Six miles south is a unit of the monument preserving the site of Bloody Marsh Battle where 1742 British troops led by James Oglethorpe ambushed a larger force of Spanish troops marching on Fort Frederica and defeated them, ending the Spanish invasion of Georgia.