Fortress Marlborough

Fortress Marlborough Indonesian Benteng Marlborough, otherwise called Malabero is an English fortification situated in Bengkulu City, Sumatra. It was worked between 1713-1719 by the East India Company under the initiative of Governor Joseph Collett as a protective post for the British East India Company's Residency there. It was one of the most grounded British fortresses in the eastern locale, second just to Fort St. George in Madras, India. The British East India Company constructed the fortress between 1713– 1719. In 1714 Governor Collett got authorization to fabricate another stronghold in Bencoolen. He named the new fortification, which he manufactured two miles from the more seasoned fortress Fort York, Fort Marlborough.

The fortification was based on a counterfeit slope, and development, utilizing both convict and nearby work, took quite a long while to finish. Amid that period, the common officers and the military army were separated between the old and the new stronghold. In April 1715 Governor Collett sent a duplicate of the arrangement of the primary. Fort Marlborough the arrangement demonstrated that the fortress was walled with earth defenses and discard, with firearm stages on the bastions. The pace of development was slow. Prior to coming back to the Mascarenes, he emancipated the stronghold back to the English.