![]() ![]() During the first three weeks they endured numerous Argentine air attacks, and on May 28-29 they fought a pitched battle against determined enemy defenders to recapture Goose Green,situated south of the beachhead. The British forces quickly set about consolidating the beachhead area and bringing in more troops and equipment. ![]() Over a month later, on May 21, the Royal Navy task force disembarked the infantry brigades in the sheltered waters of San Carlos Sound on the western side of East Falkland island. The British government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher hastily assembled an amphibious force composed of two infantry brigades – 3 Commando Brigade and 5th Infantry Brigade – and dispatched them aboard a heavily reinforced carrier battle group on a more than 8,000-mile journey across the sea to recapture the lost territory. A day after the Falklands invasion, Argentine forces occupied two other British possessions in the region, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Although the Falklands had been a British possession since 1841, Argentina had long claimed sovereignty over what it called the “Islas Malvinas.” On April 2, an Argentine military expedition invaded the islands, quickly overcame resistance by a small number of British Royal Marines and civilian volunteer defenders, and began an occupation of the sparsely populated territory. In April 1982, an undeclared war broke out in one of the world’s most unlikely places – the remote, windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. Falklands War Battle, 1982: You Take Command CloseĪs Lieutenant Colonel Hew Pike, YOU must lead British paratroopers to seize a key position held by Argentine defenders. ![]()
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