Fortification at Devil's Peak Hong Kong

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Channel: Shiran De Silva · 2017 · Travel & Events

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British authorities were very concerned about perceived threats to the safety of their colonial possessions in the Far East from other European powers. Hong Kong fell into this category. 

Accordingly the British Government constructed impressive military fortifications to protect their imperial possessions, and one of these was at Devil's Peak at the eastern extremity of the Kowloon peninsula.

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