General Edward Curtis.
General Edward Curtis was an officer in the Georgia provincial militia. During the Trans-Oceanic War, Curtis was placed in command of a combined army of Southern Confederation militia organized by Virginia Governor Theodorick Bland for the purpose of taking the Spanish city of New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi River. In the fall of 1797, Curtis's army, accompanied by a force of British regulars led by General Charles Cornwallis and a squadron of Royal Navy ships commanded by Commodore Horatio Nelson, laid siege to the city, which quickly fell on 1 October.
After spending the winter in New Orleans and resupplying his army, Curtis and Nelson sailed up the Mississippi in the spring of 1798, defeating the Spaniards and their Indian allies in a series of battles, until by September all of Louisiana north of the Arkansas River was under Anglo-North American control. By 1800 New Orleans and the area at the mouth of the Mississippi had been formally annexed to Georgia, while the area west of the Mississippi and north of the Arkansas was organized as the Confederation of Vandalia.