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The British were the first to land on the Falklands, and did so in 1690, when Captain John Strong sailed through Falkland Sound, naming this passage of water after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, the First Lord of the Admiralty at that time.
An attempt made by Argentina to establish a penal colony in 1832 failed due to a mutiny. In 1833, the British returned to the Falkland Islands. Argentina invaded the islands on 2 April 1982. The British responded with an expeditionary force that forced the Argentines to surrender.
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On 2 April 1982, the Argentinian military junta, then in power and led by General Leopoldo Galtieri, invaded the Falklands and took control of the capital Port Stanley. In response to the invasion, the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, instructed defence staff and service chiefs to assemble a naval taskforce of warships and rapidly refitte...
The British claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands is based on the argument that with the “exception of two months of illegal occupation in 1982”, Britain has “continuously, peacefully and effectively inhabited and administered” the Islands since 1833. It also bases its case on the principle of self-determination, according to which the peo...
The Falkland Islands have been on the UN’s list of non-self-governing territories since 1946, and its Special Committee on Decolonisation (C-24) has been considering the Falklands since 1964. On the committee’s recommendation, the UN general assembly adopted resolution 2065 (XX) in 1965, which noted the existence of a sovereignty dispute between th...
Oxford Constitutional Law, ‘The Falkland Islands: Introductory note’, 2009United Nations, ‘Falkland Islands (Malvinas): Working paper’, 1 March 2021David Cannadine, ‘Margaret Thatcher’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1 January 2017May 6, 2022 · But a row over seal-hunting led the Royal Navy to recapture the Falklands in 1833, founding a colony there in 1840. Apart from two months in 1982, the islands have been a British possession...
Apr 3, 2012 · 3 Apr 2012. The Falkland Islands have been in British hands for nearly 180 years, despite lying 7,900 miles away in the South Atlantic. Argentina has repeatedly challenged Britain’s claim...
Apr 1, 2022 · By June 14, Britain had recaptured the Falklands and neighboring South Georgia, after a “curiously old-fashioned war” over what then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan dismissed as “that little ...
Apr 2, 2022 · On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a remote UK colony in the South Atlantic. Argentina said it had inherited the islands from Spain in the 1800s and wanted to reclaim...
