Falklands War
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Falklands War (1982). The Falkland Islands had been under British control since 1833, but Argentina had become increasingly anxious to acquire them. On 19 March 1982 a group of Argentine scrap metal merchants landed on South Georgia, and this was followed on 2 April by full invasion. The British government acted swiftly, assembling a task force consisting of 10,000 troops and 44 warships. It was dispatched 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic, using Ascension Island as a forward base.
British troops, under aerial attack, landed on the Falklands at San Carlos on 21 May. After fierce fighting the settlements at Darwin and Goose Green were retaken and on 14 June the Argentine garrisons surrendered. The war cost the lives of 236 British and 750 Argentine soldiers. It was the turning‐point in the fortunes of the Thatcher Conservative government, but in Argentina, General Galtieri's military junta fell from power a year later.
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