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A fact from Fan Lau Fort appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 October 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Hong Kong's Fan Lau Fort was captured by the very pirates it was built to repel?

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Inconsistency?[edit]

The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch listed in ref ([1]) indicates that the fort was built by Yeung Lin (楊琳), the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. Other references indicate that the fort was completed in 1729. The problem is that Lin left his office in 1724.[2]. It would be nice to clarify this apparent inconsistency. Underwaterbuffalo (talk) 22:11, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]