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2 days ago · > Abandoned for 800 years, rediscovered by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1814 > Designated as a Unesco World Heritage site in 1991 > Consists of three levels, each representing the three realms of ...
3 days ago · Singapore nearly missed its chance at nationhood. After being destroyed by the Portuguese in the 1600s, it remained largely forgotten for almost two centuries. The island was rediscovered by British statesman Thomas Stamford Raffles during the colonial era. AULIA ULVA
3 days ago · Stamford Raffles was sent to establish a new British port in Southeast Asia primarily to protect trading interests from the Dutch. Raffles stepped into Singapore in 1819 beginning the dynamic story of the rise of the island-city, the strategic node in the China trade.
2 days ago · Grosvenor Square, as may naturally be supposed, though only a century and a half old, has had plenty of distinguished inhabitants. In it, in 1832, was living Mr. Thomas Raikes, the accomplished author of the "Journal" from which we have so often quoted.
3 days ago · British representative Sir Stamford Raffles occupied the island of Singapore off the southern tip of the peninsula in 1819 and acquired trading rights in 1824; a strategic location at the southern end of the Strait of Malacca and a fine harbour
1 day ago · The Trowulan archaeological site was first documented in the 19th century by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java of the East India Company from 1811 to 1816. He reported the existence of "ruins of temples... scattered about the country for many miles", and referred to Trowulan as "this pride of Java".
2 days ago · • As for Singapore, it was founded in 1819 amidst a backdrop of Anglo-Dutch rivalry. Stamford Raffles manipulated the succession dispute amongst the Johore royalties by offering to recognise the dispossessed elder son of the deceased Sultan Mahmud as the rightful Sultan of Johore on condition that he concluded a favourable treaty with the British.
