Answer: It could provide a defense from attacks by the Spanish.
Step-by-step explanation:
The town of Darien was first named New Inverness. It was founded in 1736 after 177 emigrants arrived on board the Prince of Wales, led by Scottish Highlanders delivered by James Oglethorpe to serve as settler-soldiers defending the boundaries of Georgia from the Spanish in Florida, as well as from the French in Alabama and their Indian collaborators.