On a peninsula just north of the town of Portsmouth and now part of Cabrits National Park, this fort was built by the British starting in 1765, later expanded by the French, and once garrisoning more than 600 soldiers. Several restored buildings, including the officers' quarters and mess (pictured here), house a small on-site museum with interpretive signage on the fort's military and cultural history, while other stone ruins sit half-hidden in the surrounding jungle. The fort is especially known for a mutiny in which it was taken over for three days in 1802 by African slave soldiers, a revolt which led to Britain´s 1807 Mutiny Act in which they and soldiers like them were freed. Abandoned in 1854, it´s curently on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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