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Did the British really leave Singapore in 1965?

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When young Thomas Stamford Raffles set foot on Singapore in 1819, he planted the seeds of success that were to turn the island of fishing villages into a throbbing metropolis by succeeding generations of islanders, colonialists and immigrants.  The British might have departed in 1965 with the city-state's independence, but vestiges of their presence are very visible to this day.