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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
, on reaching Porto Bello, the design was voted impracticable, and they returned. Meantime, the commerce of England with Spain itself was destroyed; the assiento was interrupted; even the contraband was impaired; while English ships became the plunder of privateers. England had made no acquisitions, and had inflicted on the Spanish West Indies far less evil than she herself had suffered. The disasters in the West Indies prevented the con- Chap. XXIV.} quest of Florida. Having, in September, 1739, received instructions from England of the approaching 1739 Sept. war with Spain, Oglethorpe hastened, before the close of the year, to extend the boundaries of Georgia once more to the St. John's, and immediately, in December, urged upon the province of South Carolina the reduc- Oglethorpe, in Harris, II 339 tion of the Spaniards at St. Augustine. As soon as the sea is free, he adds, they will send a large body of troops from Cuba. His own intrepidity would brook no delay, and, in