Fall of Singapore: Britain's Worst Military Defeat?
Warfare
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Are We Able to Re-Establish a Military Redoubt?
Once you are in headlong retreat, it's extremely difffficult to then re establish a military redoubt. Money was one of the factors. The other factor, of course, is civil unrest. You couldn't really adopt a scorched earth or pol in this kind of situation. I mean, it i don't think once they had started to lose those major battles at gitensin river and so forth, i mean, caal quale taken swiftly,. Then it's just a question of moving down through malano. And anmalaais is a brutal campaign. And the british get a bit of a stonking bloody nose in there. To what extent
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