Cabrits Revisited
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 24 Jan 2011 23:30
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Cabrits
Update
 A Time Line for the
Garrison:
3000BC: The first Amerindian people
settle in the bay.
1493: One ship of Columbus fleet on
his second Voyage enters the bay and sees dwellings.
1504: Christopher Columbus passes the
Cabrits on his fourth Voyage.
1535: The Spanish Council of the
Indies declares this bay as a station for its treasure ships.
1565: Sir John Hawkins, Sir Francis
Drake, Sir Richard Grenville and other privateers and pirates begin to use the
bay to refresh their ships and trade with the Kalinago/Carib
Indians
1652: Prince Rupert of the Rhine,
cousin of King Charles the first, uses the bay for repair and shelter. The bay
is named after him.
1763: Dominica is ceded to Britain by
the Treaty of Paris.
1765: First small gun battery erected
on this site.
1774: Major construction of Fort
Shirley and Cabrits Garrison begins with a workforce of four hundred African
slaves.
1778: French forces capture Roseau.
This garrison surrenders. Building work continues under the French.
1782: Battle of the Saints fought off
the Cabrits on the 12th of April. The British are victorious.
1783: Dominica returned to Britain by
the Treaty of Versailles.
1795: French republican
revolutionaries invade the north coast but are repelled by troops from the
Cabrits.
1796: West India Regiments "The Black
Regiments" formed and stationed at Cabrits.
1802: The revolt of the 8th West
India Regiment at the Cabrits.
1805: Cabrits Garrison refuses to
surrender to the French under General La Grange.
1854: Fort Shirley and the Cabrits
are abandoned by the army. The forest takes over.
1982: Restoration at Fort Shirley
begins.
1986: The Cabrits Point is declared a
National Park.
  Wandering the
beautifully kept grounds
  Mistress Pathfinder
checking out the history
  Checking up on the
boys
  Sadly the bar (officers accommodation) was closed - only to go into
the stunningly restored building - honest
Gov.........
 Beez Neez
(very front left) Nimue (behind her) (a small
Canadian boat to Nimue's left)
  Bear watching Michael at
work
  Daddy's Little
Soldiers
 Anne took a
different pose, she commented that the chap to her right had
a meatier "lunchbox"..........
      We found
some old photos showing the work that had been done
  Up in the woods we of
course found some chaps
  The boys pressing the
buttons
  The tree
roots even more stunning
  A quick Geisha demo from
the mistress
  Getting stuck into 'Wings n Fries'
   THE Hat was
tested to the max on Baby Beez - we all got soaked in the huge winds - but were
laughing too much to care
ALL IN ALL
ALWAYS A LAUGH WITH NIMUE.
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