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Bloody Marsh Battle Site

St. Simons Island, GA

A small preserved landscape marks the 1742 fighting that helped end Spain's attempt to push north into British Georgia. The dramatic name outgrew the scale of the engagement, making the site a useful place to separate later legend from the documented Battle of Bloody Marsh.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/places/bloody-marsh.htm

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