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Falklands war
The Falklands War (Spanish:
Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del
Atlántico Sur), also called the Falklands
Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and
the United
Kingdom (UK) over the disputed Falkland
Islands and South Georgia and the
South Sandwich Islands. The Falkland Islands consist of two large and many
small islands in the South Atlantic Ocean east of Argentina; their name
and sovereignty over them have
long been disputed.
The Falklands War started on Friday,
2 April 1982 with the Argentine invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands
and South Georgia, and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982. The
war lasted 74 days, and resulted in the deaths of 255 British and
649 Argentine soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and three civilian Falklanders. It is the most recent conflict to be fought by
the UK without any allied states and the only external Argentine war since the
1880s.
The conflict was the result of a
protracted diplomatic confrontation regarding
the sovereignty of the islands. Neither state officially declared war and the fighting was largely
limited to the territories under dispute and the South Atlantic. The initial
invasion was characterised by Argentina as the
re-occupation of its own territory, and by the UK as an invasion of a British dependent territory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War
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