Bugilgot Battery, Ganghwa

A battery (dondae) is a guard post built at a point commanding a clear view over a border area or coastal region within the territory, for observing enemy movements and preparing against attack. Batteries were generally raised on high, level ground, with the outer wall built up like a fortress rampart and the interior kept low to hold cannon emplacements. This battery, which was under the administration of Janggotbo (Janggot Garrison), is rectangular in plan, 2.5 metres high and 120 metres in circumference, and was fitted with four cannon emplacements (poja) and thirty-two battlements (chicheop). On top of the wall only traces remain of the low parapet once built to let defenders conceal themselves. It is said to have been built in 1679, the fifth year of King Sukjong of Joseon, when Yun Yi-je was serving as Yusu (Governor) of Ganghwa, mobilising 8,000 monk soldiers from Hamgyong, Hwanghae and Gangwon provinces together with 4,300 Eoyeongcheong (Royal Guards) troops from Gunwi in Gyeongsang-do, and completing it in forty days.

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Where it is

Region

Ganghwa, Incheon

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물