Negro Fort - Prospect Bluff

Negro Fort / Prospect Bluff 1814-1816

Unit/ Formation: Colonial Marines

Location: Prospect Bluff, Apalachicola, Florida

Period/ Conflict: War of 1812

Year: 1816

Date/s: 27 July

British forces led by Royal Marine Edward Nicolls, establish a base at Prospect Bluff to forge alliances with Native Americans against the United States.

"Warriors from Bondage" by my Jackson Walker, standing in red uniform is Garcon, former Colonial Marines NCO.

The Royal Marines recruited former American and Spanish slaves into a unit of Colonial Marines who garrison the fort during the War of 1812.

After the end of the war many Colonial Marines remained, US forces attacked the fort on 27 July 1816 and eventually destroyed it.

Surviving Colonial Marines resisted the US forces across Florida over the following decade.

Related Royal Marines 'Dits'

1. Second Corps of Colonial Marines

2. Engagement at Pungoteague Creek - Colonial Marines

3. Attack on the battery at Chesconessex Creek

Read More/ References:

• Black Redcoats: The Corps of Colonial Marines, 1814-1816 - telling the amazing tale of African-Americans who fought for Great Britain in the War of 1812 - Amazon