What was the falklands war?

Question

and was it a british island and is it still?

Answer 1

It is still owned by the British. Here's how the story goes. The piece of land is near to Argentina. When the British said, hey Argentinean dudes, we want the Falklands! The Argentinean dudes, we like, No hombres. That's su tierra. So they went to war for it. The British won and still took over it. Note: I don't know why the British went all crazy for the Falklands. It's only got about 1,800 people. But hey whatever.

Answer 2

The Falklands War was fough in 1982 when the Argentinians invaded the British territory of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

I was a schoolboy then and I remember it very well.

At the time the military dictators of Argentina were becoming very unpopular. To give themselves a boost they invaded the Falkland Islands, long claimed by Argentina despite the population there considering themselves to be British.

Possibly the Argentinians thought the British would not put up a fight but they were so, so wrong. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dispatched a Task Force to take back the islands which sailed all the way to the South Atlantic and battered ten shades out of the Argentinians third rate army.

As for the final part of your question: yes, the Falklands are still British and, as far I'm concerned, should remain British as long as the people there want to be. I would support another war if it should prove necessary.

Answer 3

Yes it is a British owned territory and you can find more information at my source link below.

Answer 4

Back in 1982 Argentina invaded the islands claiming that they belonged to them. The British government under Margaret Thatcher said no, they were British (the farmers on them were British citizens too).

The British Army was sent in by sea to rescue the islanders and throw the Argentines out which they did.

It should come as no surprise that oil reserves exist off the coast of the Falklands.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_W...

That's the url.Paste it on your web browser.And read.

Answer 6

Background: The Falkland are (still) a British dependency populated by people of English speaking people of British descent. The Islands were disputed by the French & British until the French sold their settlement to Spain 1766. The Spanish ejected the British in 1770 and following independance in 1816 the Argentine government took over. In 1833, after numerous Argentine/US incidents including the destruction of the settlement by US warships, UK government stepped in and took control of the territory.

Fast forward to 1982: The Falklands are still ticking over happily enough under UK rule. However Argentina is under the failing rule of an unpleasant & increasingly unpopular junta. The junta had to something to restore public confidence; rather out of ideas as to how they could improve the economy or civil liberties they decided to invade the Falklands.

All went well at first and the handful of Royal Marines on the islands were mopped up easily enough. Things went wrong when the Royal Navy task force turned up and the Argentine navy had no real answers to it. They had some jazzy new (French) fighters and light bombers equiped with anti-ship missiles, the Exocet. But the fighters ineptly handled & had no answers to the RNs radar & new air-air missiles   - provided most generously by Pres. Reagan. British intellegence bought up all the Exocets on the free market to ensure the Argentines only ever had the handful they started the war with; a number of British ships were sunk or damaged in the meantime but the losses were far from critical.

Once the RN had isolated the Islands by sea it was game over for the Argentine garrison; the only attempt to sent naval forces into the area met disaster when a RN submarine stalked & sunk the argentine cruiser Belgrano with all hands. British forces had some stiff contacts such as Goose Green but their long service professional infantry dominated the demoralise argentine forces whenever they met. This played out in the casualty lists, despite being identically armed British forces suffer 258 vs. 649KIA and captured over 11,000 prisoners.

The failure of the argentine effort was the last straw for the junta of Galtieri and elections were held in October 1983. Despite the connection to the junta the newly elected Raúl Alfonsín still claimed the Falklands...