A Damn Close-Run Thing
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Join Russell's mailing Russell's Join list: Facebook: Plus: Google E-mail: Website & blog: Website Twitter: Find Russell Phillips Online RussellFind Phillips A Fleet Being in A Defend We'll This Red Steel Red West BearThe Marches Also by Russell Phillips Also u k w w w Table of Contents . r Introduction..........................................................................................................................................p 1 Historical Context.................................................................................................................................1 The 1980s.........................................................................................................................................b 2 Operation Azul......................................................................................................................................3 o South Georgia..................................................................................................................................4 Pebble Island....................................................................................................................................o 5 Occupation............................................................................................................................................5 Response to the Invasion......................................................................................................................k 6 Diplomatic Response........................................................................................................................ 7 Operation Black Buck..........................................................................................................................c 8 ARA General Belgrano.........................................................................................................................o 8 Operation Algeciras..............................................................................................................................9 Operation Paraquet.............................................................................................................................. 10 HMS Sheffield....................................................................................................................................u 11 Narwal................................................................................................................................................k 12 Pebble Island Raid..............................................................................................................................12 Operation Plum Duff..........................................................................................................................- 12 Operation Mikado............................................................................................................................... 13 Sea King Crash...................................................................................................................................s 13 San Carlos Water................................................................................................................................14 a Battle of Seal Cove.............................................................................................................................14 HMS Coventry and SS Atlantic Conveyor.........................................................................................m 15 Goose Green.......................................................................................................................................15 Many Branch Point.............................................................................................................................p 16 Bluff Cove..........................................................................................................................................16 Mount Harriet.....................................................................................................................................l 16 Mount Longdon..................................................................................................................................e 17 Two Sisters......................................................................................................................................... 17 Tumbledown.......................................................................................................................................- 18 Wireless Ridge.................................................................................................................................... 19 Mount William....................................................................................................................................w 19 Sapper Hill..........................................................................................................................................20 Argentinian Surrender........................................................................................................................w 20 After the Conflict................................................................................................................................20 About Russell 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Introduction r p Historical Context Historical b o o k . c o . Argentina. In November 1968, a light aircraft from Argentina landed Road Cove on Eliza outside Argentina In November light 1968, a aircraft from Argentina. journalists. Argentinian prompting similar a alert, passengers the were unarmed but Stanley, on the racecourseon the at capital Stanley (the of the took Falkland Islands), where they four islanders DefenceThe (FIDF) Falkland Force Islands local and Royal Marines detachment the kept hostage. hijackersThe surrendered no loss hijackers with of life,aircraft and were returned and to contained. no right tono right self-determination. revolutionaries DC-4 hijacked a aircraft and the forced Argentinian land pilot to In 1966, 20 armed resolution to the sovereignty dispute, bearing in mind the interests of the islanders. Argentina has Argentina dispute,resolution the to bearing sovereignty mind interests in the of the islanders. Argentinian that the are islanders indigenous not in were brought and replace the to always argued population that was expelled after re-establishment the of British rule therefore 1833, and have in In 1964, the United Nations passed a resolution calling on the UK and Argentina to find a find to peaceful Argentina UnitedIn 1964, the passed Nations resolution a calling UK on the and the following year, after Argentina stated that they would not accept the court's decision. Also in stated that they accept the would not court's decision. Argentina after following the year, South Thule, of the one Esquivel on Teniente small up a set station named Argentina 1955, this evacuated Islands, but Sandwich was year a later. mediation in the International Court of Justice in the Hague in 1947, 1948, and 1955, but Argentina Argentina mediation the in International in Hague of Justice Court the 1955, but 1947, 1948, and in UKThe saying court have that not the did jurisdiction on the rule matter. to declined the offers, unilaterally submitted the to case court 1955, but the in case removed the the from court's was lists 1816, when Argentina declared its independence declared its Spain, from previously had which claimed Argentina 1816, when claim its brought the to newly-formed United Argentina sovereignty islands. the over In 1945, to take matter the to The offered UK thus raisingNations, international awareness of the issue. is useful to have to is useful understanding some of the context. historical sovereignty Falkland over Islands of the dates to back Argentina disputeThe between UK the and To properly understand the 1982 Falklands Conflict between Argentina and the and Kingdom, United it Argentina understand 1982 Falklands properly