Fort Montagu
 Fort Montagu is located on the seaside, just off East Bay street, about a mile or so east of the city centre.
Fort Montagu sits on the site of an earlier structure dating to c.1725 -1728. The present fort was built between 1741-42 by Peter Henry Bruce, an engineer, during the governorship of John Tinker (1735-58). It was built of locally-cut limestone and named after the Duke of Montagu. A sea battery, north-east of the fort located today on Potter’s Cay, was called Bladen’s Battery for John Bladen, son of Governor John Tinker. The fort and Bladen’s Battery were finished in July 1742 and mounted with eight 18-pounder, three 9 and six 6 –pounder cannons. Originally, the fort contained a rain water cistern, barracks for officer and soldiers, a guardroom and powder magazine.
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