A cannon lies on the cobble parapet of Battery Corre Corre
Although it is possible that the
Dutch may have had some defensive work near this area after the 1750's
projects by de Windt, the extant battery is almost certainly the remains
of that erected by Captain Robert Garstin, commander of the artillery of
the British occupation force of 1781. He had been ordered to construct
the battery to defend the beach area by Col. Cockburn, and to make it suitable
for three 18 pounders. In addition, a magazine and troop quarters were
to be erected.
At the time the French took the island, Roughly 50 feet to the northwest of the battery are the probable foundations
of the magazine. They are of similar concrete material as used in parts
of the parapet, and measure some 15 by 7 feet.
Artifacts associated with the battery included the usual assortment
of domestic items, such as stoneware bottles, creamware plate fragments,
bottle glass, and lead-glazed earthenwares. The 1981 survey also recorded
and collected a military button bearing the numeral "76", which may represent
an Irish unit serving with the French in 1781. Return to The
Fortifications of St. Eustatius
The plan of the battery is an arc,
not the usual angular wings encountered in most other coastal batteries
of the period. A small circular platform was recorded in a sketch of 1981,
but by 1990 when the present map was drawn, it had mostly eroded away.