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It was a hard fight, with some outstanding examples of leadership to motivate the Guardsmen to continue their advance. Nine men were killed and 43 wounded. As the sun came up the next morning, the Gurkhas were spotted in the open, short of their objective, and shelled. As daylight came up, the British began earlier preparations for another night battle, but continued to harass all Argentine movement with heavy artillery fire.
From their high vantage points, the British began to notice that enemy troops were streaming away towards Stanley, and began to follow them up. The British were on the doorstep of the capital. In the days leading up to the battles for the mountains around Stanley, the British had been waging a psychological operation against the Argentines, using an open radio frequency to call on them to surrender.
A ceasefire was declared, and Moore went into Stanley to accept the surrender at 9. The British held fast in their positions overnight, rather than advancing into the town in the dark. The next morning, 15 June, the Paras and Royal Marines moved in to begin disarming the Argentines and moving them to the airport.
Following the capture of Stanley, further operations were launched to take the surrender of other Argentine troops on West Falkland. A total of British servicemen and three female civilians were killed liberating the Falklands.
Repatriating Argentine prisoners of war POWs was a long process. Some 5, prisoners were embarked on 'Canberra' and 1, on 'Norland' on 17 June. By 20 June, 10, prisoners had been repatriated. These were held for intelligence gathering and to encourage Argentina to end hostilities. The last prisoners were repatriated by 14 July. The first units to return from the Falklands were 2 and 3 Para, which left on 'Norland' and 'Europic' in June.
They sailed to the island of Ascension, and then flew back to the UK. They were the last of the Army units to leave the Falklands when they sailed on 'Norland' on 19 July for Ascension.
Prior to the war, Mrs Thatcher's popularity had been at low ebb. But victory in the Falklands helped ensure a Conservative win in the General Election. Argentina's junta had gambled all on a popular victory, but now faced humiliation. The country's dictator, General Leopoldo Galtieri, was forced to resign three days after his forces surrendered. Democracy was restored to Argentina in after the fall of the discredited military regime.
To date, Argentina has not given up its claim to the Falklands. The Falkland Islanders won a commitment to their sovereignty that any future government would be courageous to question. Economic investment and a much larger military presence also followed. Nearly 40 years on, Britain still retains a force on the islands. Troops were sent to Northern Ireland in They ended up staying there for nearly 40 years in what became the British Army's longest ever deployment.
Nato has been the cornerstone of British defence planning for 70 years. The war against Iraq in saw the largest single deployment of British troops since the Second World War.
Altogether, about 35, British servicemen and women served in the campaign. One of the most famous counter-terrorism operations in history took place in Gunmen overran the Iranian Embassy in London and took hostages, but the crisis was resolved when the building was stormed by the SAS. British soldiers first deployed to Bosnia in during the country's vicious civil war. Initially tasked with protecting aid convoys, they have remained there on peacekeeping duties ever since.
In , British soldiers deployed to Kosovo as a peacekeeping force. Today, troops still serve in the disputed country as part of a multi-national force helping to ensure security and stability.
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Challenges As well as the enormous distance - the Falklands are some 8, miles almost 13,km from the UK - the Army also faced limitations on what forces could be committed. However, in Argentina, where the islands are known as Las Malvinas, the government says the country inherited control of them from Spain in the s and points to their proximity to South America to bolster its claim of sovereignty.
Tension first started to boil over when a group of Argentine scrap metal-workers landed on British-controlled South Georgia, miles east of the Falklands, on 19 March and raised the Argentinian flag. The invasion of Port Stanley invasion caught Whitehall off-guard. It also suggested that islanders who did not wish to become Argentinian citizens could be relocated to Scotland, the Daily Mail reports. Like her opposite number in Argentina, Thatcher was concerned about her popularity at home.
Still in her first term, she was well behind in the polls and facing the twin threats of internal party dissent and the rise of the Social Democratic Party SDP. On a geopolitical level, the Falklands have remained firmly in British hands since
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