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Friday, October 10th, 2008China Travel – Site of the Anti-British War at Zongshan Mountain in Jiangzi
Friday, October 10th, 2008 |
The Site of the Anti-British War in Zongshan Mountain is located at Jiangzi County in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Zong, meaning castle in the Tibetan language, is a county-level administrative unit in Tibet. Zongshan Mountain is very high and steep. In the 30th year (1904) of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the British army invaded the Jiangzi Area in Tibet, aiming at Lhasa after conquering Jiangzi. The soldiers and civilians at Jiangzi managed to fight the invaders back. They built emplacement and other defense installations at the front side of Zongshan Mountain. The outer wall was built with huge stones, which are 4 meters thick and 5-8 meters high. The British invaders used new-style firearms to attack the mountain. The soldiers and civilians in Tibet resisted firmly. Though the British army suffered a heavy blow, the Tibetans had to have close fighting with the British on the mountain because of the shortage of arms and food. They jumped off the cliff and died at last.
On the site there are the former residence of one of the commanders and some vestiges of the emplacement.
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