Penang, Fort Cornwallis

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Now this place is quite old, it costs 3 ringit to get in and is worth the money if your bored shitless, the adverts tell you about all the staff dressed up in colonial gear etc and there being guides, well to tell you the truth the woman in the ticket counter is dressed up in colonial gear, but as she is behind dark glass in her little booth you don't actually get to see her, the only reason I saw her was cos she came out and asked if I wanted my picture taken with the old statue of Francis Light, the other staff dressed up in the dress of the times must have been in hiding.

Anyway onto the history of the fort I suppose, Francis Light zoomed in there in 1786, whooped there asses and built a fort, this is a star shaped fort, and no, I have no idea why it is a star shaped fort, anyway he named it after his buddy Charles Cornwallis who was like the top dog in Bengal, yep he was the governor general.

In 1789 Francis Light rebuilt it again, not sure why but he got convicts to build it for him so he got it done real cheap, 67,000 spainish dollars dont sound so bad does it well thats how much it cost him and they lazy gits didn't finish till 1793.

Anyway this was the first military installation of the East India company, didn't they supply tea? I just couldn't imagine a tea bag company needing the military....

Anyway the whiteys stayed in the fort and the slaves had to live outside the fort.

They also had a big moat around the fort, 10 meters wide and 2 meters deep, they filled that in about 100 years ago due to malaria, although I got bitten to fok there by the old tiger striped daytime mossies.

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