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.