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Lord Moran, Churchill’s physician, wrote: ''"The fall of Singapore on February 15 stupefied the Prime Minister."'' In particular, the surrender of the British and Australian troops bewildered him. ''"How come 100,000 men (half of them of our own race) were to hold up their hands to inferior numbers of Japanese?"'', wrote Moran. Though Churchill had been gradually prepared for its fall, the surrender of the British fortress stunned him, according to Moran. ''"He felt it was a disgrace. It left a scar on his mind. One evening, months later, when he was sitting in his bathroom enveloped in a towel, he stopped drying himself and gloomily surveyed the floor: ‘I cannot get over Singapore,’ he said sadly."''

Lord Moran, Churchill’s physician, wrote: ''"The fall of Singapore on February 15 stupefied the Prime Minister."'' In particular, the surrender of the British and Australian troops bewildered him. ''"How come 100,000 men (half of them of our own race) were to hold up their hands to inferior numbers of Japanese?"'', wrote Moran. Though Churchill had been gradually prepared for its fall, the surrender of the British fortress stunned him, according to Moran. ''"He felt it was a disgrace. It left a scar on his mind. One evening, months later, when he was sitting in his bathroom enveloped in a towel, he stopped drying himself and gloomily surveyed the floor: ‘I cannot get over Singapore,’ he said sadly."''

Military historians consider the capture of the Malayan Peninsula and Singapore among the Japanese Army’s greatest military victories. The fall of Singapore shocked the British public and changed the view of people in the British colonies that Britain was not invincible, as they previously thought. Hence, calls for independence were made everywhere after the war with the backing of the former British colony, the United States. That was marked the beginning of the end of the British Empire.

Military historians consider the capture of the Malayan Peninsula and Singapore among the Japanese Army’s greatest military victories. The capture of the Singapore fortress shocked the British public and changed the view of people in the British colonies that Britain was not invincible, as they previously thought. Hence, calls for independence were made everywhere after the war with the backing of the former British colony, the United States. The fall of Singapore marked the beginning of the end of the British Empire.

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