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25-01-2018, 12:50 PM
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I was taught that Raffles did a good job and William Farquhar screwed up after he left.....this book said our History books are wrong.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/how-raffles-stole-the-jewel-of-singapore
The great range of merchants who traded there — Arab, Indian, Chinese, Malay and European — affectionately knew him as the ‘Rajah of Malacca’; and news that Farquhar was to run the show in Singapore in the early 1820s gave more than 5,000 of these merchants the...
My History Teacher was Wrong about Raffles (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/my-history-teacher-was-wrong-about-raffles.250314/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/my-history-teacher-was-wrong-about-raffles.250314/).
I was taught that Raffles did a good job and William Farquhar screwed up after he left.....this book said our History books are wrong.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/how-raffles-stole-the-jewel-of-singapore
The great range of merchants who traded there — Arab, Indian, Chinese, Malay and European — affectionately knew him as the ‘Rajah of Malacca’; and news that Farquhar was to run the show in Singapore in the early 1820s gave more than 5,000 of these merchants the...
My History Teacher was Wrong about Raffles (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/my-history-teacher-was-wrong-about-raffles.250314/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/my-history-teacher-was-wrong-about-raffles.250314/).