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    The Bermuda Garrison was the military establishment maintained on the British Overseas Territory and Imperial fortress of Bermuda by the regular British...
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    Bermuda (/bərˈmjuːdə/; historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land...
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    of the Bermuda Garrison since the 1957 withdrawal of regular units and detachments from Bermuda. The two original units, the mostly black Bermuda Militia...
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    subsequently served in Bermuda, where the 102 Regiment was posted in 1812 to the Bermuda Garrison, stationed at St. George's Garrison. Bermuda, part of British...
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    America, the still-growing Bermuda Garrison was elevated to a separate Bermuda Command.] The Colony of Newfoundland, like Bermuda, was not included in the...
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    the Bermuda Militia Artillery, which, like the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps, formed part of the garrison of the important Fortress colony of Bermuda and...
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    (the attendant Bermuda Garrison of the British Army existed primarily to protect the naval base). In 1818 the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda officially replaced...
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    The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) was created in 1894 as a reserve for the Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison. Renamed the...
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    as Prospect Garrison, was the main infantry camp of the Bermuda Garrison, the military force stationed in the Imperial fortress of Bermuda. It also contained...
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    the Bermuda Garrison, with the reserve units taking on greater responsibilities). Conscription into the Bermuda Militia Artillery and the Bermuda Volunteer...
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    termed a general officer commanding and the Bermuda garrison becoming a command in its own right. Bermuda was consequently left out of the confederation...
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    upper house of Bermuda's Parliament). The governor is also commander-in-chief of Bermuda, formerly in control of a large Bermuda Garrison composed of regular...
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    George's Garrison was the first permanent military camp of the Bermuda Garrison established in the British colony and Imperial fortress of Bermuda (or The...
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    military garrison. Following the loss of Britain's ports in thirteen of its former continental colonies after the American War of Independence, Bermuda assumed...
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    overseas in colonial garrisons, and slightly more than half of these were in imperial fortresses: in the Mediterranean, Bermuda, Halifax, St. Helena,...
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    (1792–1869), American obstetrician Robert John Simmons, who served in the Bermuda Garrison before dying of wounds as a First Sergeant in the 54th Massachusetts...
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    Bermuda was first documented by a European in 1503 by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez. In 1609, the English Virginia Company, which had established...
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    area used by units of the Bermuda Garrison based elsewhere in the colony. Today, the Camp is the home of the Royal Bermuda Regiment. The base was located...
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    for military matters in the maritime provinces. Prior to 1784, the Bermuda Garrison (an independent company, detached from the 2nd Regiment of Foot, from...
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    Retreat Hill, within St. George's Garrison, at the North-East of St. George's Island, in the British colony of Bermuda. The fort shares its hilltop location...
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  • Imperial Fortress colony of Bermuda was also appointed commander-in-chief of the disproportionately-large Bermuda Garrison. From 1912, when Lieutenant-General...
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  • Robert John Simmons (category Military of Bermuda)
    established in the colony in 1795, leading to a rapidly growing British Army Bermuda Garrison tasked with protecting the naval base, and keeping the colony out of...
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    the new Bermuda Garrison inherited from the militia, and building new ones. Two large army bases were established, known as St. George's Garrison and Prospect...
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    1868. He was involved with the construction of fortifications in the Bermuda Garrison (three years) and at Malta (two years) before he was deployed to southern...
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    The Bermuda Militia Infantry was raised in 1939 as a part-time reserve of the British Army's Bermuda Garrison. The Parliament of Bermuda had authorised...
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    The Bermuda Militia Artillery was a unit of part-time soldiers organised in 1895 as a reserve for the Royal Garrison Artillery detachment of the Regular...
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    coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of 181 islands. Geography of Bermuda Bermuda's 123 Islands Listed by name, large...
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  • at the age of sixteen. He had served with the 2nd battalion in the Bermuda Garrison before the war, arriving on the Western Front with that battalion 6...
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    Royal Navy, British Regular Army and Territorial Army units of the Bermuda Garrison, the Canadian Forces, the US Army, Air Force, and Navy, and various...
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    Garrison was the first permanent military camp of the Bermuda Garrison. On 9 Feb 1865 he died in St George's Bermuda, the Colonial Capital of Bermuda...
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