Fort Marlborough (Fort Marlborough) - Bengkulu

Fort Marlborough (Fort Marlborough) is not only a bastion of British territory in the west coast of Sumatra, but also a place to maintain Bengkulu as regional monopolies and trade pepper. The fort was built by the East India Company (EIC) in 1713-1719 during the reign of Governor Joseph Callet. The fort is regarded as Britain's second strongest fortress in the eastern region after the fort St. George in Madras, India. Marlborough's own name given by the British government to John Churchill who holds the Duke of Marlborough I as a mark of respect.

Initially used as a defensive fortress, but then switch functions as a commodity trading as well pepper supervision center of the Malacca Strait. Judging from the architecture of the building is more like a fortress like dwelling in the city center rather than the fort or trading center. According to the British Library in this fort describes the process of baptism, marriage, and death of the occupants. There are about 90 civil servants and the military who lived in this castle.

Today, the fort still stands firmly in the land area of 44,100 m² with a length of 240.5 m and 170.5 m wide, facing to the south and back to the Indian Ocean. The architecture of the building is like a turtle, there is a bridge that connects the head and body, a bridge over the moat that forms the tail and the bridge that connects the entrance to the outside. The third advance this bridge can be raised and lowered. Until now the outer wall boundary is still visible in the form of trenches.

Inside the building there is a detention room, armory, offices, some cannons, space protection, long tunnel 6 m and a width of 2 m. While on the back there are three tombs is the tomb of Thomas Parr, Charles Murray and the tomb of the unknown. There is also a plaque that reads the name, date and year of death of the British army.