 At the end of the War of 1812 , as the British post in Florida was evacuated the Corps ' Florida detachment was paid off and disbanded . Although several men accompanied the British to Bermuda , the majority continued to live in settlements around the wooden stockade the Corps had garrisoned ( which had become a symbol of slave insurrection ) . This legacy of a community of armed fugitive slaves with a substantial arsenal would lead to tensions with the United States of America . Those remaining later took part in the Battle of Negro Fort in July 1816 , after which they joined the southward migration of Seminoles and African Americans escaping the American advance . Members of the Colonial Marine battalion who were deployed on the Atlantic coast withdrew from American territory . They would continue in British service as garrison @-@ in @-@ residence at Bermuda until 1816 , when the unit was disbanded and the ex @-@ Marines resettled on Trinidad . 
