Kammala wannan jumla: Tushen Fort Beaufort wani tashar mishan ne wanda Reverend Joseph Williams na London Missionary Society ya kafa a 1816. A cikin 1822, Kanar Maurice Scott na Royal Warwickshire Regiment ya gina wani shinge mai nisan mil uku daga tashar aikin mishan a matsayin tashar soja ta kan iyaka da kuma karfi a kan hare-haren da Xhosa ke yi a karkashin shugabansu, Maqoma. 'Yan Burtaniya sun kira shi Fort Beaufort don girmama Duke na Beaufort, mahaifin Ubangiji Charles Henry Somerset, gwamnan farko na Burtaniya na Cape Colony (1814 zuwa 1826). Bayan da
Yaƙin Xhosa na 6 (1834<unk>1835), Gwamna Sir Benjamin d'Urban ya ba da izinin gina kagara a wurin da aka gina ginin. Sabbin gine-ginen sun haɗa da asibitin soja, gidajen masu gadi, sansanin sojoji, da kuma ofisoshin.