Wellington Barracks () was a military barracks located to the east of Garden Road in Admiralty, Hong Kong. Named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, it was built in the 1850s[citation needed] on the site of an earlier military hospital that was destroyed in July 1841. One of many military complexes constructed by the British Army in the area, the land was returned to the Hong Kong government in the 1970s and gradually reverted to civilian use. As a result, the barracks was closed at the end of that decade, demolished in the mid-1980s and replaced with Harcourt Garden.
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| - Wellington Barracks () was a military barracks located to the east of Garden Road in Admiralty, Hong Kong. Named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, it was built in the 1850s[citation needed] on the site of an earlier military hospital that was destroyed in July 1841. One of many military complexes constructed by the British Army in the area, the land was returned to the Hong Kong government in the 1970s and gradually reverted to civilian use. As a result, the barracks was closed at the end of that decade, demolished in the mid-1980s and replaced with Harcourt Garden.
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| - Wellington Barracks () was a military barracks located to the east of Garden Road in Admiralty, Hong Kong. Named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, it was built in the 1850s[citation needed] on the site of an earlier military hospital that was destroyed in July 1841. One of many military complexes constructed by the British Army in the area, the land was returned to the Hong Kong government in the 1970s and gradually reverted to civilian use. As a result, the barracks was closed at the end of that decade, demolished in the mid-1980s and replaced with Harcourt Garden.
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