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Captain John Smith's 1624 map of Bermuda, showing contemporary fortifications.. The defence of the colony against an expected Spanish attack was the first concern of the first Governor of Bermuda, Richard Moore, when he and fifty-one other settlers arrived at Bermuda aboard the Plough on the 11 July 1612, to join the three men left behind in Bermuda from the 1609 wreck of the Sea Venture.
Bermudian sisters Rosalie, Helen and Ellesif Darrell in 1846. The term Women in Bermuda includes British nationals with local status, British nationals without Bermudian status, Commonwealth nationals and foreign nationals who are resident in the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, although in most cases only the first of these groups is intended to be connoted.
The Royal Bermuda Regiment (RBR) is the home defence unit of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.It is a single territorial [2] infantry battalion that was formed on the amalgamation in 1965 of two originally voluntary units, the mostly black Bermuda Militia Artillery (BMA) and the almost entirely white Bermuda Rifles (titled the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) until 1949), and the ...
Media in category "Military of Bermuda" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Bermuda - Warwick Camp in the 19th Century.jpg 10,482 × 5,693; 15.66 MB
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also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: British: Bermudian This category exists only as a container for other categories of Bermudian women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
The Bermuda Militia contingent was sent to Virginia to form the nucleus of a new regiment, the Caribbean Regiment. The Bermuda Militia contingent arrived on two ships on the 13th and 23 April 1944, to form the training cadre of the new regiment at Fort Eustis, a US Army base near Williamsburg, Virginia. Under the command of Lt. Colonel H ...
Today, the only military unit remaining in Bermuda, other than naval and army cadet corps, is the Royal Bermuda Regiment, an amalgam of the voluntary units originally formed toward the end of the 19th century. Although the Regiment's predecessors were voluntary units, until 2018 the modern body was formed primarily by conscription: balloted ...