On February 12, 1733, General James Oglethorpe and his
settlers landed at Yamacraw Bluff and were greeted by Tomochichi, the
Yamacraws, and Indian traders John and Mary Musgrove. Mary Musgrove often
served as a translator. The city of Savannah was founded on that date, along
with the colony of Georgia. In 1751 Savannah and the rest of Georgia became a
Royal Colony and Savannah was made the colonial capital of Georgia. By the
outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Savannah had become the
southernmost commercial port of the Thirteen Colonies. British troops took the
city in 1778, and the
