Singapore was the first country to hold them is Portugal since 1511 and was a threat to the Dutch. When the British arrived in Malaya expand its influence in the mid-18th century, but around 1817 the UK has to compete with the Dutch in the colony. Britain sent Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles Ford to explore the region, Singapore. By then, Singapore has ruled the Sultanate. Raffles had agreed with Sultan Hussein Shah Sian to the British trading station here. But the British annexed into the city in Singapore and established in the year 1819 by the British imperialist rent Singapore from Johor, which was under Dutch rule in 1824 in possession Singapore-based agreements.