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Question 2
Explain how the choice of Singapore as the location of an EIC trading post was more of circumstance than of design.


Circumstantial factors

-     Anglo – French rivalry. An alliance with the Dutch was needed to maintain stability in Europe and Britain’s national security. The Anglo-Dutch convention of 1814 saw the British returning most of the conquered territories to the Dutch after the war with France in order to maintain an amicable and viable Holland.

-     Raffles’ priority w
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