Bermuda Garrison

rdf:langString Bermuda Garrison

rdf:langString Bermuda Garrison

rdf:langString Bermuda Garrison

rdf:langString Presentation of Colours at Prospect Camp

rdf:langString Bermuda Garrison defence works, camps, depots and other sites

rdf:langString center

rdf:langString Bermuda

rdf:langString Location in Bermuda

rdf:langString Barracks

rdf:langString The Bermuda Garrison was the military establishment maintained on the British Overseas Territory and Imperial fortress of Bermuda by the regular British Army and its local militia and voluntary reserves from 1701 to 1957. The garrison evolved from an independent company, to a company of Royal Garrison Battalion during the American War of Independence, and a steadily growing and diversifying force of artillery and infantry with various supporting corps from the French Revolution onwards. During the American War of Independence, the garrison in Bermuda fell under the military Commander-in-Chief of America. Subsequently, it was part of the Nova Scotia Command until 1868, and was an independent Bermuda Command from then 'til its closure in 1957. From the 1790s onwards, the garrison existed firstly to defend Bermuda as the main base of the North America and West Indies Station, including the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard (HM Dockyard Bermuda) and other facilities in the Imperial fortress colony that were important to Imperial security until the HM Dockyard was reduced to a base (a process that was carried out between 1951 and 1957). The movable military forces in Bermuda (the Board of Ordnance Military Corps, including the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and Royal Sappers and Miners, and transport and ordnance and commissariat stores departments, and the infantry of the regular British Army, as opposed to the local-service forces of militia and volunteers) included significant stores capability, and was generally an overlarge garrison by comparison to other colonies (most of which received no regular garrison), with the intent that, relying on the Royal Naval squadron for transport, supply, coastal bombardment, and reinforcements in the form of landing parties of Royal Marines and sailors, Bermuda should be the launching point for military raids on the American coast by expeditionary forces detached from the defensive garrison, or that were stationed in Bermuda for that purpose, as demonstrated during the American War of 1812. Although the last professional soldiers (a detachment of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry) were withdrawn in 1957, and the Garrison ceased to exist, two part-time components – the Bermuda Militia Artillery and the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (retitled Bermuda Rifles) – continued to exist until 1965, when they amalgamated to create the current Royal Bermuda Regiment.

rdf:langString Fort Hamilton

rdf:langString Albouy's Fort

rdf:langString Bailey's Bay Battery

rdf:langString Church Bay Fort East and Church Bay Fort West

rdf:langString Cojoined Boaz Island and Watford Island Camp

rdf:langString Crow Lane Fort

rdf:langString Daniel's Island Fort and Daniel's Head

rdf:langString Devonshire Bay Fort

rdf:langString Ferry Point Barracks and Ferry Point Magazine

rdf:langString Fort Langton

rdf:langString Fort Popple

rdf:langString Fort Prospect and Royal Barracks of Prospect Camp

rdf:langString Hamilton Armoury

rdf:langString Harris' Bay Fort

rdf:langString Hungry Bay Fort

rdf:langString Ingham's Fort

rdf:langString King's Point Redoubt

rdf:langString Mangrove Bay Fort

rdf:langString Maria's Hill Fort

rdf:langString Middleton's Bay Fort

rdf:langString Newton's Bay Fort

rdf:langString Paget Fort

rdf:langString Peniston's Redoubt

rdf:langString Red Barracks

rdf:langString Royal Army Service Corps Wharf

rdf:langString Sears' Fort

rdf:langString Smith's Fort

rdf:langString Somerset Armoury

rdf:langString St. George's Armoury

rdf:langString West Elbow Bay Fort

rdf:langString West Side Fort

rdf:langString Whale Bay Battery and Whale Bay Fort

rdf:langString Wreck Hill Fort