After Commissioner Lin Zexu arrived in Guangzhou in 1839, he realised that he had to control the water between Tsim Sha Tsui and Hong Kong Island to prevent British ships from using this passage for their contraband opium trade.
He therefore relocated the headquarters of the Dapeng Brigade to Kowloon, and had two forts built at Tsim Sha Tsui and Kwun Chung (Yau Ma Tei) to stand guard over the harbour, protect Humen (the Bogue) and deprive the British of this vital east-west passage.
Credit : History Museum of HK.
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