acts of the base's military history.
As a result of Bermuda's proximity to the southeastern U.S. coast, it was regularly used by Confederate States blockade runners during the American Civil War to evade Union naval vessels and bring desperately needed war goods to the South from England. The old Globe Hotel in St George's, which was a centre of intrigue for Confederate agents, is preserved as a museum open to the public.
Anglo-Boer War
During the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) 5,000 Boer Prisoners of War were received and housed on five islands. The placement of the Boer Prisoners of War were according to their views of the war. "Bitterenders" (Afrikaans: Bittereinders) who refused to pledge allegiance to the British Crown were interned on Darrell's Island and closely guarded. Other islands such as Morgan's Island held 884 men, including 27 officers, Tucker's Island held 809 Boer Prisoners of War, Burt's Island – 607, and Port's Island held 35.
The New York Times reported an attempted mutiny by Boer Prisoners of War en route to Bermuda and that martial law was enacted on Darryll's Island, in addition to the escape of three Boer Prisoners of War to mainland Bermuda as well as an escape by a young Boer soldier from Bermuda to New York on the steamship Trinidad.
The most famous prisoner was Fritz Joubert Duquesne, who escaped from Bermuda, settling in the USA, and became a spy for Imperial Germany during the First World War, during which he claimed to have sabotaged and sunk HMS Hampshire, on which Lord Kitchener (the head of the British Army, who had been a key architect of the Boer defeat in the Second Boer War) in 1916 (Lord Kitchener's brother, Lt. Gen. Sir Walter Kitchener, had been the Governor of Bermuda from 1908 'til his death in 1912, and his son, Major Hal Kitchener (with his partner, Major Hemming), both First World War aviators, bought Hinson's Island, formerly part of the Boer POW camp (it housed teenaged
