THE BRITISH POST ON PROSPECT BLUFF

Humbled by their losses at Mobile and Pensacola, the British returned to Prospect Bluff to regroup. In the coming months, nearly fifteen hundred Royal Marines, Colonial Marines, and allied Indians lived at the post, where they worked and trained under the leadership of Edward Nicolls and George Woodbine. The disparate group undertook several fortification projects, including enlarging the moat surrounding the complex and constructing an octagonal-shaped internal fort on a massive dirt mound at the center of the compound. This new edifice, which was encircled by a stockade and a moat of its own, enclosed the “Powder Magazine” built months