Nominal British defenses extisted there. The real goal for even attacking Malaya was to get to Singapore. The british always though Singapore would be attackedd from the sea and they were prepared for such an attack. They thought to bring a subtantial army down through Malaya would be pretty much impossible. So the Japanese attacked from the morth where all the british fixed guns were pointing out to sea.
"Board of Commissioners of Currency Malaya and British Borneo" is what was printed across all Malaya and British Borneo banknotes from 1953 to 1967.
Nobody has conquered Malaysia. Portuguese first conquered Melaka state in 1511. (currently a state in Malaysia). Malaysia was only formed only in 1963. British started to colonise Malaya in 1771 and started to combine all the colonised in Malaya in 1874.
Malaya gained independence from British rule on August 31, 1957, and became the Federation of Malaya.
in the 19th century >)
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In 1777 the British planned to conquer and isolate the New England colony.
Singapore.
R.L German has written: 'Handbook to British Malaya'