The Battle Box is a popular name of the underground command centre constructed under Fort Canning, Singapore as an emergency, bomb-proof command centre during the Malayan campaign and the Battle of Singapore. The Battle Box is now a museum and tourist attraction.
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Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or box:
“No slogan of democracy; no battle cry of freedom is more striving then the American parents simple statement which all of you have heard many times: I want my child to go to college.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“I am no source of honey
So why should they turn on me?
Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free.
The box is only temporary.”
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