Early days of English Camp on San Juan Island
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English Camp as it appeared in late spring of 1860 with the almost completed Commissary in the left background, the bell and marquee tents on the emerging parade ground and a marine detail working the vegetable garden (note the deer fence). Soon Rear Adm. R. Lambert Baynes, RN would order barracks built for the men in anticipation of an early winter.
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The Commissary at English Camp – Feeding a hundred hungry soldiers at one of the far ends of the Earth was no easy matter
The phrase "An army marches on its stomach," variously attributed to Napoleon and Frederick the Great, was as true on San Juan Island as it was on the battlefields of Europe. At English Camp, the commissary building stored no only…