1864
The terra "Kowloon Battery" appears right to the north of the expression "Lei Yue Mun" in the Sun On Gazetteer, referred to as the "Sun On District Gazetteer Map."
Empson, 1992, p.113 (Plate 1-25)
1876
The name Devil's Peak appears in a sea defences map of 1876.
1888
1895
27 May 1898
The name Devil's Peak appears in Stanford's Map of Hong Kong and Kowloon.
The Chinese translation "Kwei Shan," literally "devil hill," appears alongside Devil's Peak in the revised Collinson Map.
The Committee on Armament on Certain Stations at Home and Abroad decided on 27 May 1898 that two 9.2-inch Bl. Mark X and two 6-inch QF guns were to be mounted on Devil's Peak at sites to be called Pottinger Battery and Gough Battery, respectively, to strengthen Eastern defences.
Empson, 1992, p.134 (Plate 2-3)
(Plate 2-4)
Empson, 1992, p.135
Empson, 1992, pp.136-137
Rollo, 1992, p.70
The Kowloon Battery is universally associated with the fort outside the south gate of the Kowloon Walled City.
See p. 187 Rollo, 1992 for a drawing of a 9.2-inch BL Mark X on a Mark V mounting
June 1898
January 1899
The leasing of the New Territories for 100 years by the British with effect from 1 July 1898, Devil's Peak became part of British Hong Kong.
Conference on Armaments regarded Hong Kong as a dockyard, port, and naval base of great importance.
The 6-inch guns proposed by the 1898 Committee took shape in the form of BL guns on Centre Pivot Mark II mountings instead of QF guns,
Three batteries proposed for Devil's Peak.
Rollo, 1992, p.72
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