Outpost Of Empire: The Royal Marines And The Joint Occupation Of San Juan Island

by Vouri, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780914019466
• ISBN10: 0914019465
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

The occupation of San Juan Island by the Royal Marines between 1860 and 1872 marked the last time "redcoats" would be stationed in lands south of the 49th parallel. Following the nearly disastrous "Pig War" crisis, their primary mission with their U.S. Army counterparts was keeping the peace on an island considered ripe for the taking by Britons and Americans alike. Drawing on historical, archaeological, and photographic research, Outpost of Empire offers an intriguing glimpse of a frontier garrison in the Victorian age.

Table of Contents

Joint occupation : civil or military or both	p. 6
Site selection	p. 10
The Royal Marines in the Pacific Northwest	p. 16
Rank and file	p. 24
Joint occupation : Bazalgette and Pickett	p. 30
Building the camp	p. 34
Setting into joint occupation	p. 42
Whisky, murder and mayhem	p. 44
Transitions : the camps and the American Civil War	p. 52
Camp life : food and medicine	p. 56
The Hughes incident	p. 60
The new commander	p. 64
The camp is improved	p. 66
The McKenzie incident	p. 68
Ten years and counting	p. 72
Joint occupation ends	p. 76
Archaeology	p. 82
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