 In 1702 when British South Carolina forces invaded Spanish Florida, they destroyed the few "refugee missions" in Guale.By 1733, there were too few Guale in the area to resist James Oglethorpe's founding of the English colony of Province of Georgia.A similar missionary province called "Mocama" (named for a Timucuan chiefdom) was situated just south of Guale, on the coast between the Altamaha River and St. Johns River in Florida.