St. George's Garrison, Bermuda
St. George's Garrison was the first permanent military camp of the Bermuda Garrison established in the British colony and Imperial fortress of Bermuda, with construction of Old Military Road and the original Royal Barracks commencing during the war between Britain and France that followed the French Revolution. It would remain in use until 1957, when it was transferred to the civil (colonial) government with most of the other Admiralty and War Office properties in Bermuda.
Ordnance Island (left) and St. George's Town as seen from Barrack Hill in 1857
RML 10 inch Mk II gun closeup Fort St Catherine
Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers camp at Tucker's Town, St. George's Parish, Bermuda, in 1867. Summer tent camps were a tactic to combat Yellow fever epidemics that stuck the soldiers in barracks especially heavily.
BL 9.2 inch gun Mk X at Fort Victoria on St. George's Island in Bermuda
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 until its closure in 1957.
Presentation of Colours at Prospect Camp
The effect of thirty years of evolution on the design of coastal fortifications, between the 1790s and 1822, can be discerned between Ferry Island Fort (in the foreground), with multiple guns arrayed to cover the water westward, and the Martello tower in the background, which used a single gun with 360° traverse to cover all of the surrounding area. Ferry Reach, Bermuda, 2011.
Military Governors and Staff Officers in garrisons of British North America and the West Indies 1778 and 1784
A company of infantry on parade at Prospect Camp