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NOTES AND QUERIES
Tung Chung Fort Shuen: 30 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung. Tai Yu Shan Fort Shuen: 30 garrison soldiers under 1 Tsing-tsung.
Tai Yu Shan Shuen: 40 garrison soldiers under 1 Tsing-tsung. Sha Lo Wan Shuen: 5 garrison soldiers.
Tai Ho Shuen: 5 garrison soldiers.
Mui Wo Shuen: 5 garrison soldiers.
For the support of these guard-stations, other guard-stations were established on the mainland and the neighbouring islands. The following shows the distribution of garrison soldiers in these guard-stations:
Kowloon Walled City: 100 guard soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung and 2 Ngai-wai.
Kap Shui Mun Shuen: 10 garrison soldiers.
Shumshuipo Shuen: 35 garrison soldiers.
Tsing Lung Tau Shuen: 50 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung. Tsing Yi Tam Shuen: 15 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung.
Cheung Chau Shuen: 45 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung and 1 Ngai-wai.
Ping Chau Shuen: 15 garrison soldiers under 1 Pa-tsung. Yung Shu Wan Shuen (on Lamma Island): 10 garrison soldiers.
Po Toi Shuen (on Po Toi Island, south of Hong Kong Island): 20 garrison soldiers.
These guard-stations were under the command of the Tung Chung Shau-pei of the Tai-pang Battalion.
Besides the garrison soldiers, there were also war vessels with 60 soldiers under 2 Tsing-tsung and 1 Ngai-wai.
These forts and guard-stations remained in position till 1898, when the New Territories and the adjacent Islands were leased to the British. After that, they were redundant.
BIBLIOGRAPHY CITED (all from Chinese Sources)
O Mun Kei Leuk ¶ g. 1800 edition
San On Yuen Chi
1819 edition
Kwong Tung Tung Chi ✯✯ 1864 edition