Hobe Fort and Fort San Domingo
I and Peter Coyl went to Danshui to visit dutch forts.
At the twelfth year of Guang-Syu reign (1886), Ming-Chuan Liu, the first appointment governor of Taiwan, hired Lieutenant Max E. Hecht who was a German engineer to build the Hobe Fort in western style for establishing the coastal defense of Taiwan. That year was just after the Sino-French War (1884-1885). Above the main gate remains Governor Liu's inscription, "Bei-Men-Suo-Yao". The fort faces to the south with good covering and good camouflage. The site of the fort is a rectangle shape; from the outside to the inside of the fort: a fortified wall, a moat, a sub-wall, batteries, covering, a pass way and a court. The batteries and the sub-wall were grouted with concrete. The cannons were equipped at the fifteenth year of Guang-Syu reign (1889). The Huwei Fort has four batteries which were equipped with one 12-inch, ine 10-inch Armstrong breechload guns and two 8-inch Krupp breechload guns. They are all disappeared now.
The Fort San Domingo was built in 1629. It listed as a Grade 1 historical side and consists of the main fortifications, the former British consulate, and a southern gate.
