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{{Infobox Military Structure
|name=Queen's Redoubt
|image=
|caption=
|location=[[Gage Hill]]
|type=
|built=[[1779]]
|builder=General [[John Campbell]]
|materials=Logs & sand, some bricks
|size=80 yards square
|used=1779-1781
|demolished=[[May 8]], [[1781]]
|controlledby=Britain
|armament=20 embrasured guns on parapet
|garrison=1100 men between three Gage Hill forts
|currentcommander=
|commanders=
|occupants=
|battles=[[Siege of Pensacola]]
|events=
|status=No longer extant
|ownership=
|visitors=
|mapcode=
}}
The '''Queen's Redoubt''' was a [[British Pensacola|British]] fortification located on [[Gage Hill]] that served as one of two advanced [[Wikipedia:Redoubt|redoubts]] to [[Fort George]]. (The [[Prince of Wales Redoubt]] was the other.) It was located about 600 yards north of Fort George, near the modern-day intersection of [[Spring Street|Spring]] and [[Brainerd Street]]s.
[[Image:Spanish troops at Pensacola.jpg|thumb|left|Spanish grenadiers and Havana militia pour into the breached British redoubt]]
The redoubt played an integral role in the [[1781]] [[Siege of Pensacola]], allowing Spanish forces under [[Bernardo de Gálvez]] capture the city. On [[May 8]], at around 9:30 a.m., a Spanish artillery round landed near the door of the redoubt's powder magazine, detonating it. The resulting explosion killed 76 British troops and wounded two dozen more. Spanish troops occupied the shell of the fortification and installed a new battery bearing down on the nearby Prince of Wales Redoubt and Fort George. Facing a siege force at such close proximity, [[Peter Chester]] and [[John Campbell]] requested terms of surrender at 3:00 p.m. that day.
The Spanish renamed the redoubt '''Fort San Bernardo''' and maintained it throughout [[Third Spanish period|their occupation]] of Pensacola until [[1821]]. The United States government allowed the fort to deteriorate, and nothing now remains of it.
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[[Category:Forts]]
|name=Queen's Redoubt
|image=
|caption=
|location=[[Gage Hill]]
|type=
|built=[[1779]]
|builder=General [[John Campbell]]
|materials=Logs & sand, some bricks
|size=80 yards square
|used=1779-1781
|demolished=[[May 8]], [[1781]]
|controlledby=Britain
|armament=20 embrasured guns on parapet
|garrison=1100 men between three Gage Hill forts
|currentcommander=
|commanders=
|occupants=
|battles=[[Siege of Pensacola]]
|events=
|status=No longer extant
|ownership=
|visitors=
|mapcode=
}}
The '''Queen's Redoubt''' was a [[British Pensacola|British]] fortification located on [[Gage Hill]] that served as one of two advanced [[Wikipedia:Redoubt|redoubts]] to [[Fort George]]. (The [[Prince of Wales Redoubt]] was the other.) It was located about 600 yards north of Fort George, near the modern-day intersection of [[Spring Street|Spring]] and [[Brainerd Street]]s.
[[Image:Spanish troops at Pensacola.jpg|thumb|left|Spanish grenadiers and Havana militia pour into the breached British redoubt]]
The redoubt played an integral role in the [[1781]] [[Siege of Pensacola]], allowing Spanish forces under [[Bernardo de Gálvez]] capture the city. On [[May 8]], at around 9:30 a.m., a Spanish artillery round landed near the door of the redoubt's powder magazine, detonating it. The resulting explosion killed 76 British troops and wounded two dozen more. Spanish troops occupied the shell of the fortification and installed a new battery bearing down on the nearby Prince of Wales Redoubt and Fort George. Facing a siege force at such close proximity, [[Peter Chester]] and [[John Campbell]] requested terms of surrender at 3:00 p.m. that day.
The Spanish renamed the redoubt '''Fort San Bernardo''' and maintained it throughout [[Third Spanish period|their occupation]] of Pensacola until [[1821]]. The United States government allowed the fort to deteriorate, and nothing now remains of it.
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[[Category:Forts]]
