Cemetery of Zhenghaijun

Infobox_cemetery
name = Cemetery of Zhenghaijun
鎮海軍墓


imagesize =300 px
caption = The gravestone in Cemetery of Zheng-Hai-Jun
established = 1885
country = ROC-TW
location = Jiasian Township, Kaohsiung
level = The class of county (3rd)
type = public
website = [http://traffic.kscg.gov.tw/CmsShow.aspx?Parm=20074211524421,2007327153552593,5] (Chinese)

Cemetery of Zheng-Hai-Jun (Chinese: 鎮海軍; literally means "the corps of coast guard") is the monument the class of county in Taiwan. The grave located at No.58, Xiao-Lin Village (Chinese:小林村), Jiasian Township, Kaohsiung County and near No.21 provincial highway. There buried soldiers were guards of old road from Dapu Township, Chiayi County to Chihshang, Taitung Cunty in Qing dynasty. There were 96 graves noted by Record of Jiasian Township in 1985, but now there only hold 85 graves. [Lin li-chieh(林里傑), Record of Jiasian Township(甲仙鄉志), (Kaohsiung County Jiasian Township Office Press, 1985), p20.]

History

After Taiwan Expedition of 1874, Beijing government that was regnal by Tongzhi Emperor began to change the policy about development in eastern Taiwan. [Wang yuan-zhi(王元穉), Jia Shu Gong Du Chao Cun(甲戌公牘鈔存), (Historical Research Commission of Taiwan Province Press, 1997, ISBN 9570090812), p128.] There were six roads to connect to west and Houshang(Chinese: 後山 Eastern Taiwan) went down from Chiayi city after 1874, but it was difficult to keep safe and unblocked in these roads. Indigenous people and bandit destroyed those roads soon, and there was only one way which names Road of Qinshuiying(Chinese: )contact Fangliao, Pingtung to Balangwei(Chinese: 巴塱衛Dawu, Taitung today). [Hu chuang(胡傳), Tai Wan Ri Ji Yu Bing Qi(臺灣日記與稟啟), (Historical Research Commission of Taiwan Province Press, 1997, ISBN 9570090499), p66.]

1885 the twelfth year of Guangxu Emperor, emperor command Liu Mingchuan(Chinese:劉銘傳) went to Taiwan for responsibility of defense. For taking communication and administration from eastern Taiwan, Liu Mingchuang began design new road through from west to east.

Liu Mingchuan commanded nominative General Yang Jinlong and Lieutenant General Zhang Gaoyuan leading their soldier seven tenth to build road for eastern from the base Chiayi. Gen. Yang Jinlong directed his troop Zhenghai middle corps, front battalion. (In 19th century, battalion is the unit for main force controlled in China.) Gen. Zhang Gaoyuan directed his troop Zhenghai main corps, mail battalion, machine gun company. The total was about 1000 soldiers. The same year March, they arrived Chiayi, and advance Dapu that is a township in bound between Tainan County and Chiayi in 18 March. They passed the headstream of Kaoping River and meted another troop building road from Taitung County leaded by Lieutenant General Zhang Zhaolian in the pass of Mount Guan. Cemetery of Zhenghaijun was in the historical road near old post of Zhenghai middle corps. Those soldiers died in infectious disease in hotly southern Taiwan. [Liu Mingchuan, Liu Zhuang Su Gong Zou Yi(劉壯肅公奏議), (Historical Research Commission of Taiwan Province Press, 1997, ISBN 9570092246), p206.]

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