Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Who Really 'Founded' Singapore?

I think that Sir Stamford Raffles was the real founder of Singapore. Without him, William Farquhar would not have even bothered about Singapore until Raffles brought him to the island. I also think that John Crawfurd was not the real founder of Singapore, because did not start a British trading settlement in Singapore, but only helped the British to own Singapore. I think that even without John Crawfurd, the British and the Dutch would have came up with the treaty soon enough and the British would own Singapore. William Farquhar was not a true founder of Singapore, because in my opinion, William Farquhar only helped Sir Starmford Raffles to set up a new settlement, and also he helped to invite people into Singapore to trade. He also started to defend the new settlement and he built guns position and mounted guns facing the sea. I think that all he did was because that Sir Stamford Raffles had gone to another country that is why he was able to do that. So in my opinion, William Farquhar and John Crawfurd are not the real founder but Sir Stamford Raffles was the true founder of Singapore.