Fan Lau Fort [1729- ]
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Submitted by tngan on Fri, 2012-03-23 15:17
Date Place completed:
1729-01-01
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Article on Fort history:
Article on Fort history:
When the Hong Kong Government surveyors arrived at Fan Lau in 1904 after the New Territories were ceded to Britain, they found the fort still abandoned. In the Block Crown Lease Survey, it is described as "old fort, ruins, waste".16 It had probably not been re-occupied since the early part of the 19th century. It can now be argued that the Kai Yik Kok fort is a Ming dynasty fort built sometime before 1573, possibly abandoned, but rebuilt again in 1730, captured by pirates and re-taken by government forces sometime between 1810 and 1815, and then refurbished, refortified, and garrisoned until some time before 1841-42, by which time it was already again abandoned.
Source Fan Lau and its fort: An Historical Perspective. Armando M Da Silva RASHK Vol 8 (1968) p. 82