Fort Royal was a Civil War sconce (or redoubt) on a small hill to the south-east of Worcester overlooking the Sidbury Gate.

[2][3] In early April 1786, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson visited Fort Royal Hill at the battlefield at Worcester.

Adams wrote Edgehill and Worcester were curious and interesting to us, as scenes where freemen had fought for their rights.

The people in the neighborhood appeared so ignorant and careless at Worcester, that I was provoked, and asked, "And do Englishmen so soon forget the ground where liberty was fought for?

Perhaps their awkwardness before might arise from their uncertainty of our sentiments concerning the civil wars.On 23 October 2009 a Virginian oak tree was planted in Fort Royal Park by Rear Admiral Ronald H. Henderson, Defence Attaché to the Embassy of the United States, to commemorate this occasion.