Saint George (Reino Unido)

"La ciudad de Saint George en Bermudas, fundada en 1612, es un notable ejemplo del más antiguo establecimiento urbano inglés en el Nuevo Mundo. Sus fortificaciones asociadas ilustran gráficamente el desarrollo de la ingeniería militar inglesa entre los siglos XVII y XX, con las adaptaciones necesarias por el desarrollo de la artillería en este período. La ciudad histórica de Saint George, junto con sus fortificaciones, fue designada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 2000. Este conjunto incluye los siguientes monumentos: * Devonshire Redoubt * Landward Fort * Seaward Fort (King's Castle) * Southampton Fort * Batería St. David * Fuerte Popple * Paget Fort * Smith's Fort * Fuerte Cunningham * Musketry Trenches * Peniston's Redoubt * Batería Alexandra * Gate's Fort (Town Cut Battery) * Fuerte Albert * Fuerte St. Catherine * Fuerte Victoria * Western Redoubt (Fuerte William) * Fuerte George * Burnt Point Fort * Torre Martello * Ferry Reach Magazine * Ferry Island Fort * Coney Island Kiln"

"St. George's (formally, the Town of St. George, or St. George's Town), located on the island and within the parish of the same names, settled in 1612, was the first permanent English settlement on the islands of Bermuda. It is often described as the third successful English settlement in the Americas, after St. John's, Newfoundland, and Jamestown, Virginia. In fact, although English fishermen had begun setting up seasonal camps in Newfoundland in the 16th Century, they were expressly forbidden from establishing permanent settlements, and the town of St. John's was not established until circa 1620. Jamestown, also, did not exist until 1607. Prior to that, its settlers were obliged to live within James Fort. St. George's, claimed to be the oldest continuously-inhabited English town in the New World, is consequently suggested to have been the first."