Hobe Battlefield Earthworks

Surviving sections of the rammed sand embankments, around 4 meters high, that Qing troops under Sun Kaihua (孫開華) raised at Shalun (沙崙) in 1884 to resist a French landing at Hobe during the Sino-French War. An outer line linked the coastal dunes while an inner line followed the hill ridges north toward Dazhuangpu (大庄埔); behind them the defenders repulsed the landing of October 1884 in the Battle of Tamsui (滬尾之役). Abandoned once Hobe Fort replaced them, the earthworks were cut down by a golf course from 1918 and by land clearing in 2011, but four segments around Shalun Beach and the radio station were registered as a historic building in 2013 and extended in 2020. It is unclear precisely where the remaining embankments can be found.