The Battle Box

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:

    That civilisation may not sink,
    Its great battle lost,
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The distant box is open. A sound of grain
    Poured over the floor in some eagerness we
    Rise with the night let out of the box of wind.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)