The Falklands War (1982)
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- On the 2nd of April 1982, forces from Argentina invaded the British overseas territory of the Falkland Islands, the first invasion of British territory since World War II. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, accused of neglecting the islands, assembled a task force to recover them.
It would consist of 6,000 troops and 30 warships plus auxiliary vessels..
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Did you know?
1) In the Falklands War both sides were armed with similar infantry weapons. For example the FAL Battle Rifle. The British had the semi-automatic L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle while the Argentinians had the standard full auto FAL. The Sterling SMG could also be seen on both sides.
2) The civilian Cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 was used in the task force to carry 3,000 troops and 650 volunteer crew to the islands
Please keep comments and discussion civil.
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This war led to the greatest newspaper headline ever: "The Empire Strikes Back"
Vito C no way. Was that an headline?
yeah by a newspaper called the sun. they are scumbags
Dim Wit oh god the sun... this wasn’t in my lifetime but I remember when the seals killed osama they went with “bin bagged.”
Also their famous "got 'em" headline with the sinking of the belgrano. They're basically psychopathic with reporting news. Zero care for treating anything with sensitivity...
That has to be one of the best headlines ever.
Argentina: “Britain wouldn’t cross the Atlantic just to hold onto some territory”
US: “You'd be surprised”
No problem, allow me to elaborate. 13 colonies were gradually founded by Britain on the eastern coast of North America, along with other colonies. To keep their holdings, the British crown _literally_ sent troops across the Atlantic, which aided in their efforts to maintain control when the colonists rebelled. That clear things up?
Not sure how I made that name mix-up, but there we go. Correction made. Thanks!
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah nobody touches our rocks
@@thek.g.b7428 I don’t hate the U.K. exactly I hate it’s imperial history besides it was never really theirs in the first place just because it’s near there otherwise we could use that on a lot more places like Greenland with the USA or canada
"The British probably won't even care -"
*6,000 troops,60 planes and 20 ships show up*
Can you imagine the fear the dictator felt as he watched the task force set off from England on tv.
And the help of chile
What can I say, I care greatly.
@@thebritishempire8754 yes tiny islands with *oil*
@@lidallyhim the perfect archipelago
Argentina: This is mine now.
Great Britain: *You can't steal from the master of stealing.*
I love this joke🤣
but to be fair there was never was any indigenous human habitation on the Falklands so basically whoever got to them first gets to keep them
@@rejvaik00 "but to be fair there was never any indigenous human habitation on The Falklands..."
That we know of.
@@concept5631 true true but until that evidence comes to light it's currently showing that the first arrivals were in fact Europeans
I go where the evidence points and nothing has ever been found to suggest otherwise
@@rejvaik00 Fair enough.
@@rejvaik00 Falklands should still belong to Argentina I believe, it's right on the edge of the Southern Hemisphere and to have a country control it all the way from the Northern Hemisphere is just annoying. You wouldn't want your neighbor from 4 houses away owning 1/8 of your backyard would you? It's a small portion of land but that's what makes it that much more irritating.
The Arigies forgot one of the 4 Rules of War.
1. You can never hold Afganistan.
2. Never get into a land war in Asia.
3. Never invade Russia in the winter.
4. Never get into Naval Warfare with the British.
You can RUclips the video where the commander of the british fleet took a day to decide if they continue the mission or they turn arround... With obsolet jets and ww2 bombs they sunk many of the ''unstopable'' navy...
@@VonRammsteyn I can also RUclips a video that says the earth is flat and ran by lizard people that shape shift into humans and live in a secret underground world.
@@DesertFernweh You may...But you will not see the real british officer in charge of the fleet talking about lizzards or flat planet... But offcourse, it will be too embarrassing to see the history is not what you think it was...And takes balls to learn the true events...
@@VonRammsteyn doesn't make it true
@@marny3559 Offcourse not! Because you will not belive what you don't WANT to belive... But still, he was the high office in charge of the british task force...I belive it because i saw him...Not because i WANTED to see him...
"Could you maybe just let them have the island?"
"No"
"Ok, here have some weapons"
I read that with Bill Wurtz voice.
@@toddharig8142 it's not even bill wurtz but ok
@@doodoofard69 Duh. You really just wrote the most unnecessary comment of the year.
Which video is that from?
USA time everybody
My Dad and Uncle both served in the Falkland war. The both came home luckily
pity
@@roadwarrior8560 bruh
Based family
Solo se que las malvinas son Argentinas y eso es obvio
@@TheWiliman por q tenes una swastika?
I'm Argentinean. Removing folk themes of rivalry, they fought well, English. The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas to me) were won with honor. My great-grandfather was a fighter, he was captured a month before the end of the war and the English treated him very well, with dignity. My grandfather was about to be sent when the war ended. Rest in peace the young argentinian boys who were recruited and sent to die against their will
슬픈 이야기다
나쁜 군부 독재 정권
Well. Don't do it again.
@Muhammad's sexy Pig Unlike you my mind wasn’t on young boys, I was referring to the junta government.
@@mysticgeneie4668 Lo mismo digo.
El sentimiento es mutuo.
@@ismaelfirpo3475 I'm sure Argentina will be at the back of the priority list should the British Empire make an unexpected revival
Fun fact:
The Argentine military still hasn't recovered from this.
It was followed up by a lot of peronismo too, there's no way to come back from that...
@@VonRammsteyn jajajaja, para para para, a quien se supone que voté yo?
@@VonRammsteyn osea que según vos si a una persona no le cabe el peronismo automáticamente es Macrista? Que pequeño es el mundo en el que vivís. Me parece que en realidad la culpa de que el país este así de hecho mierda, es la gente como vos que no tiene capaz de razonamiento propia y necesita que un amado líder le diga que es lo que tiene que pensar.
They've only recently picked up more aircraft... Super Étendard's which were in service at the time of the war. Looking at their navy they've only got worse.
Matthew Smith 🤣
When the water starts speaking jet engines
When the sky is light blue with white clouds
That's just Soviet russia my freinds
When the water starts speaking Belgrano
Max Smith when the sea asks if u want some tea
When the ocean starts talking British navy
Imagine being a half-trained Argentinian solider looking out into the darkness and all you hear is-
“ *FIX BAYONETS!* “
Now you know why >11000 troops were captured
"BATTALION! CHARGE BAYONETS!"
"Half trained Argentinian civilians" ? Most of them went to Argentine public schools they knew how to use a bayonet or a knife ...
@@UCN2027 Did I say civilians though?
Half trained? I've spoke to quite a few of our veterans from 3 Para charged with the recapture of Mt Longdon initially. They all say there weren't many conscripts there and that the Argentine soldiers fought with valour and balls. There's absolutely zero disrespect at all. I think Ian McKay got a VC for his bravery during the operation, when in truth they all served one. To put this into perspective Britain in a week-end got together a task force who sailed 8000 miles across to the other side of the world, into their winter and launched an attack against enemy forces who had been allowed to dig in and take all the premium spots and oust them. They did that quite unbelievable job in a little over 2 months. This is the stuff of legend people, even the most partisan Argentinians must agree with that when looked at properly. They won't though because of the military junta propaganda at the time. Sadly they've still not given up their rights to sovereignty of the islands and know one day they'll get them but know it can't be by conventional force. This whole operation sent out ripples to the world.
They basically just threw civilians with barley any training at elite british commandos.
It's like throwing cats at elephants and expecting a total victory.
At the Beginning we sent a Amphibious Special Gropu from the Navy and they stayed there a few weeks but the goverment sent them to the frontier with Chile,After that the most part of the Army was Conscripts,Gendarmerie Officers and some true Soldiers with experience fighting the Guerrilla in the 70s,but really not with a professional army
Eye found it hard two reed your comment.
@@marisakennedy777 I´m a disaster with the english
@@_lean_caceres_5802 Your English is fine, thank you for sharing the info that you did
Civilians with barely any training, sounds like the Revolutionary War to me.
FYI The small Royal Marine garrison on the Island didn’t just “surrender”, they shot down a helicopter, blew a big hole in an argentine sub (rendering it useless) killed dozens of argentine soldiers and only surrendered when they ran out of munitions.
Just feel like saying they surrendered does their efforts an injustice.
Oh and also they disabled a Argentine ship by climbing a high coastal tower and laying heavy machine gun fire into the ships bridge, killing the captain, most of the officers and destroying the navigation equipment...
that ship was out of action for the rest of the war.
@@jamesnye8797 Ok, but why do you feel like you must do justice in part of the British? Why not also the argentines? Who were mostly kids with no experience fighting ww2 veterans?
@@SomeDude2346 ww2 ends in 1945, pretty sure by 1982 the ww2 veterans weren't on their way to the Falklands!
@@Jonnydb why not? young ww2 conscripts wouldve by then been adults serving. I don't see how it would be invalid.
@@SomeDude2346 minimum age of ww2 conscript at falklands: 18 in 1945, therefore 55 in 1982 which is too old for the British army due to physical abilities
The whole thing was a joke, my school teacher years ago was in the falkland war and considering he was a highly trained soldier even he said himself “they were mostly barely trained kids pushed into a fight by a dictatorship struggling to stay in the picture”.
I think apart from places close to Stanley like Tumbledown where there were highly trained and experienced forces this is true
For some reason the high command decided to put our best troops in the chilean border
@@agustingutierrez8523 The reason was because The argentinian goverment plan to invande Chile after win. But that didn't happen
@@emilsepericles Not many
It's 600
This war is a complete joke really all in all that even 600 deaths are such a waste for absolutely nothing
No joke to the dead my friend
The Argentine dictator was literally the South America Mussolini
i dont like the dictatorship but comparing to mussolin is overkill
Yeah, Mussolini was a competent political figure who industrialised Italy from a backwater to the golden standard of autocracy. The Argentine dictator was a crook who privatised most of the economy and was unable to stay in power without lobbing his political opponents out of helicopters.
@@electricvancompany3847 militarily that is
At least Mussolini gained some victories out of his little fiasco in Africa
@@electricvancompany3847 The thing is that the dictatorship was corule by a representative of each division of the army, it wasn't rule by one person as many believed.
"...a small team consisting of Royal Marines, SAS and SBS..."
If I was an enemy of the UK, I would definitely not want to encounter that small team in combat. Britannia🇬🇧 rules the waves! -Respect from Finland
If i was sn enemy of finland, i would quit immediately cuz simo häyhä and larry thorne would rise frim their graves
-respect from🇳🇴
Exactly, if I were an Argentina on a hill in Falklands and had Royal Marines to my front, British Paratroopers to your left, Scots & Welsh Guards to your right, and Gurkhas to your rear, no wonder the Argies surrendered.
And, worst of all.... The Paras.
Respect from Chile
A take this as a compliment
The worst part in this story is not the war but the argentinian government, my friends father (that is also a close friend of mine) was recruited at an age of 20 and had 3 weeks of military training, he told me and my friend that one time a friend of his was loading a mortar shell and because it was damaged (apparently the past government didnt care at all about their troops) it exploded and shredded his friends arm, the government just sent their troops with nothing but still tried to win a war against a country far more advanced than us, the government easly killed more people than the english guns did
Ignacio Szychowski its always terrible when leaders dont care for their soldiers.
Osório you're aware the Argentina lost right?
Eric Sales leaders start wars but its the regular soldiers that do the dying , ww1 was an awful war marching into German machine guns etc , Vietnam vets were treated very badly by there own people, on returning to the usa,
'cannon fodder' as one general called foot soldiers.
But i guess they know the score when they decide to join up.
Eric Sales because they don't want to risk "disappearing."
My history professor was sent to Falklands, he told us that with his group were always joking that Argentinian engineering squads were more deadlier than the Brits for they tendency to not mark or even warn about any minefield they set up, so they always end up marching into "friendly" minefields that has been set up recently. One classmate asked if he saw someone blow up, he said "saw it, no, but I've heard it, I don't want to talk about it too much because it really piss me off"
Argentina: we took the island, what are you going to do?
England: Bravo-six, going dark.
@@ahnoholaqtal lol, pirate how? what, they stole your ships? they won?
HAHAHAHAHA Good one
United Kingdom*
Lights out.
*Britain 🇬🇧
Underestimating Britain, never ends well.. they do not compromise, nor do they miss 🇺🇲🇬🇧
At 0:20 the 80 royal marines didn't just surrender instantly, they completely annihilated the Argentinian corvette, the buen sucezo, using only small arms fire and a Milan anti tank launcher. The commander of the detachment, using a modified Enfield from Ww2 also opened fire with a sniper scope on the bridge of the Argentinian cruiser killing the captain. But apart from that great video dude love this channel
Argentina: “um, well you don’t seem to care about these islands so we’re just gonna take them back real qui-
*BASS BOOSTED BRITISH ANTHEM AND THOUSANDS OF TROOPS SHIPS AND VEHICLES FLOOD IN*
XDD
Imperialism
Yee
For the Queen
@Régiment de chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niémen you're still salty about it
The lesson to be learnt: Don't mess with Britains rock collection
underrated comment
Stolen comment
haha, if it were brazil, it would see the armistice or peace treaty created by the English.
lesson learned, don't mess with britain's rock collection
THEY’RE MINERALS MARIE
If you hear these you've already lost:
Trees speaking Vietnamese
Cars speaking Irish
Atlantic Ocean speaking Harrier
Dont forget the "suspicious plank board in the ground speaking Afghani
And the sand speaking afghani
The foxholes speaking "Ping"
@fernando jose gonzalez olguin el caballo sus de esa no se nada
The building rekt speaking russian
Argentina: **Attacks the Falklands.**
The entire British Empire: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.
@@hiddenassassin3233 chile made the difference there, reporting British forces thus anticipating their every move
except the ARG Air Force
Do you get it? Imagine a foreign power wanting to mess with UK and they persuade Ireland to help them right from the backyard
D I R T Y
By 1982 most of Britain's colonies gained independence, so the meme isn't funny.
Sebastian Brooks-Baker 😂
HiddenAssassin32 haha lol 🇬🇧🏴💙
@Max Smith Sunking 7 super modren royal ships with super modern missiles A A systems with ww2 bombs looks very decent to me...
To anyone outside of the UK. This wasn’t a matter of fighting over “useless rocks”. It’s fighting for and defending the people. Who are British
LMFAOOOO, BRITISH? The islands were ARGENTINIAN and will always be. Also, you talk about fighting and defending people but the brit comitted a lot of war crimes there, like executing our soldiers, torturing them, killing soldiers that had surrended, etc
@@Saggs786 islands were British before Argentina existed.
@@ARand0mDuck Both countries did
@@lmao.3661 No. Imma educate you on the islands history; They were discovered in 15XX by Spain on Magallanes expedition. They werent occupied until 16XX when the French made it there. Spain claimed the islands and the french gave it to them, brits also claimed the islands in 1765 to 1770 but they were exiled by Spain's governament. They were Spain's islands until 1816, when Argentina became independent and Spain gave those islands to Argentina.
In 1833 the brit occupied the islands, when Argentina was already a country and they were Argentina's territory
so why british army and police dont defend british people in london from muslim gangs?
You invade some islands:
*KALM*
The surrounding sea begins to speak Margaret Thatcher:
*Panik*
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
No, no, no!
And de neigbrought country speak pinochet
The crew of the HMS Sheffield started singing Monty Python’s “Always loom on the bright side of life” while they were sinking
Welp thats british morale i guess
Now they are singing GLU GLU and sleeping with SpongeBob
Saludos desde Lanús
@@ezequieltedesco1373 Just like the General Belgrano.
HOW DO YOU KNOW WERE YOU THERE
@@Sagegeir Because the crew and the rescue boat crew could hear.
Great video! Love the channel also! I have been there with the British army for training but thankfully never in the war lol. Great to see the war tour though! Keep up the great work
Matsimus!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Matsimus I see you everywhere! Like Karma's videos.
Sup matt Ty for ur service
Peach
Matsimus. Keep popping up every where
Argentinian leader was like "I would've never invaded Falklands, if I knew you're going to make such a fuss about it..."
😂😂😂😂
There's a possibly apocryphal story I was once told about an Argentinian soldier who was stood on sentry duty outside of Port Stanley. He came face to face with a team of SAS on a recon mission before the attack was scheduled to begin the next day. The SAS team leader told the Argentine (who, as you can probably imagine, was scared out of his mind) to tell his commanding officer what he had seen, whereupon they returned to the cover of darkness.
UK: hey, Argentina attacked my worthless rocks
USA: i don't care
UK: there's oil under them
USA: HERE, TAKE SOME WEAPONS
VDB they like oil
The rocks had sheeps, very so it's an important rock
brilliant 👍
Ironically our fleet was made of USS ships 😅 the "ARA General Belgrano" used to be the "USS Phoenix" that ship who survived Pear Harbor
o i l
Been waiting for this one !!
Great animation and information !
Amazing job , simple history .
Thanks
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Writers of The Crown: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.
Xd
well falkland islands did have some mentions there but not much
The current season of the crown summarized: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MARGRETTHATCHER REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
They have it like 50 seconds of screentime I-
Argentina: *takes the Falklands*
Great Brtian: :)
Lmfaooooo
Argentina no dice Falklands dice Malvinas
Why do I hear *Rule Britannia*
Argentina: takes islands
One Britannic Boi: I'm about to end this mans whole career
@@uncanalramdom4149 u wot
War would've ended a lot earlier if Brittain led with: "We're sending a Gurkha over. You have 12 hours to comply." One would be enough. Anything more would be overkill.
The Gurkhas did go over, just weren't needed.
@@JG-ib7xk if they where the body bags supply would be gone
"We're sending an Australian over. You have 12 hours to come to your senses."
Bruh they sent the SAS over I don't think they needed the gurkhas
Naaaaah, the SAS had it under control
Dang, as an American i'm so confident in the British military as our strongest Ally.
Well done "mates"
“As an American” 😂
shush bruv
You're confident that "your mom" is your strongest ally? Heh, Momma's boy.
We’re not your mates. We’re only politically allied but us British hate Americans
@@lydiamichaels1976 Everyone hates the Americans.
Which makes it even more impressive that everyone hates the British even more than the Americans.
“Royal Marines, SAS and SBS”
Argentina never stood a chance😂
Paras!
Eso no los paro ni un poco, mate
TazGameplay I agree mate 👍
England: professional soldiers and gurkha assassins
Argentina: kids without knowledge of using a weapon sent to war by a dictator
What a fair war
@@q-chone2771 blame the dicktator , not the britons mate
I am Argentinian and I love my country, but I know guys who fought in that war and told me how the English used to treat us much better than our own country, even when the war ended they loaned their ships to take the soldiers who had been abandoned in the islands.
It is really a very sad topic for me, but today I can not understand the madness we committed, in sending those guys who had not even finished their military training with a equipment in terrible conditions to die for a land where no citizen He recognized as Argentine.
I hope that someday we can leave this in the past
retium97
I think this war for many will live on in the form of Internet comments that I admit I'm guilty in partaking in occasionally but any sensible person can look past those and realise what happened has happened and should be left in history. It was refreshing to see a comment from someone who actually thought about the lives lost rather than who gets to raise a flag on the islands.
@@salmonocz2944 Anglophobia hurts Argentina , but Anglophile voices are systematically censored ( or self - censored ) in favor of official malvinism. In Argentina they teach about the "theft" of the islands , but they do not mention that the United Kingdom was the first state to recognise Argentina as independent . And many other British contributions that have helped shape what we understand as Argentine today are deliberately forgotten , while Anglophobes burn Union Jacks in a square to feel less guilty about secretly admiring England and the United Kingdom in general . Sometimes Anglophobes are just repressed Anglophiles .
Beta
@@rongarcia2128 no one in England hates Argentina you look like a schizo
The Argentine World Cup winners got a round of applause from the entire stadiums in England, meanwhile in every other country they were booed. Can you imagine Argentina giving a standing ovation to an English player winning an international trophy? That’s the difference: maturity
As a nation you need to go through grief about what happened.
Don’t blame yourselves. Just recognise what you did, and why.
There will be a whole set of emotions going on through the population that caused them to have such a dictator in power and not do anything.
There was a lot of injustice involved there. But from Britain’s point of view it was just our comeuppance really.
Cold Wars
Episode V
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
It is a dark time for the Argentinians.
Although the Falkland Islands has been reclaimed, British Imperial troops has driven the Argentine Forces from their bases and pursued them across the seas.
Evading the dreaded Imperial Fleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Leopoldo Galtieri has established a new base on the remote islands of The Falkland Islands.
The Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, obsessed with reclaiming the Falkland Islands has dispatched dozens of troops into the far reaches of the Atlantic Ocean....
Dozens. This is a great emphasis on how little the brits needed to wi
@@camoningerland8212 it's a Star Wars reference
This is art
Xd
I see you are a man of culture.
I even heard the British saying remember the Alamo boys when they were attacking port Stanley!
Something that's not usually mentioned is the fact that the captured argentinians were treated better by the brittish than by their own officers, due to them being just teens forced into recruitment by the dictatorial goverment of that time.
Also, here in Argentina, the "Malvinas" speech is one of the more common speeches used to "boost" patriotism (still). Most commonly used among the populists.
I'm sensing something spicy coming from the comment section.....
The Un Und Unly me too
No that’s usually the troubles
The Un Und Unly
Nah it's just peppers
MalvinREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEas
The Falklands are as Argentinian as Gibraltar is Spanish or the Channel Islands are French.
They're closer to Argentina, but Britain owns them because... well, basically because they said so and had proof of that.
'It's military believed that Britain would not try to regain the island by force'
Thatcher: Ye, about that
70% comment section: Falklands are UK
30% comment section: Falklands are UK
Spanish Empire: Que?
yes but actually no
Amigo estas en un re cumple no somos los *_españoles_* los que reclaman las islas somos los argentinos hubieras ido al colegio
Argentina: Invades British territory
Britain: OUE! YOU GOTTA PERMIT FOR THAT INVASION?
Oi got a license for that invasion mate!?
Guns N' Gears do you watch donut operator
How much arrogance and that few do the British in Hong Kong, so that China did not get angry.
@@Gloriaimperial1 try again in English
@@oMaGicKsv The children of the Prince of Wales study Spanish, and Spanish is the most studied language in the United States and the United Kingdom.
You know that Shakespeare, Elisabeth I and Francis Bacon spoke Spanish perfectly, like all English aristocratic families in the 16th and 17th centuries. In fact Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, calling on Spain to invade England, to free her. Prospero (Duke of Milan), is Philip II (Duke of Milan, King of Spain and King of England and Ireland). Sycorax, the evil witch, is Elisabeth I. Caliban, the deformed monster, is the Anglicans (deformed about Shakespeare's Catholicism).
I don't mind speaking American English on the Internet, 5 minutes a day, until I have to speak Chinese 5 minutes a day. You know that when the British Empire died, nobody spoke English, the international language was French. In my country almost nobody studied American English until 1980. When the 13 colonies became independent with the help of Spain, which made a naval block to Britain capturing 80 British warships full of soldiers and weapons, Spain owned 65% of the territory The USA, from Florida to Alaska, and the USA adopted the Spanish dollar, not the pound sterling. The United States did the same, and then sold many hamburgers and E.T. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial worldwide. But the great culture is European. The most spoken language in the West is Spanish: 500 million speakers (460 million native speakers. More than English). But in addition, Spanish and Portuguese are 90% similar languages (I understand the Portuguese language without studying it, and without translation), so there are 260 million more, who speak Iberian mother tongue. 760 million natives in total, and the growth is very fast.
Omg. So much detailed vid! I enjoyed it!
Thanks a lot of vehicles to draw
Britian and Argentina fighting over a bunch of rocks
penguins - this seem like a good form of entertainment
Can you imagine you are a sheep in the opposite side of the world and suddenly a war breaks out
Many years later after the war...
“Ouch!”
“Falkland, are you OK?”
“Yes Argentina, I’m UK.”
This comment needs to be higher.
Great
The Argies did fairly well
2 April 1982 - Invasion of the Falklands - 100+ Marines and sailors captured
3 April 1982 - Argentinians seize Leith Harbor. 22 Royal Marine POWs
10 May 1982 - sinking of the HMS Sheffield
22 May 1982 - sinking of the HMS Ardent
23 May 1982 - Battle of Seal Cove
24 May 1982 - sinking of the HMS Antelope
25 May 1982 - SS Atlantic Conveyor sunk by Argentinians
25 May 1982 - HMS Coventry is sunk by Arg. aircraft.
29 May 1982 - Mount Kent Battle - 5 SAS dead in friendly fire incident.
6-7 June 1982 - British paratroops vacate position under pressure, leaving radio codes
8 June 1982 - Bluff Cove Air Attacks
10 June 1982 - Skirmish at Many Branch Point - capture of the SAS contingent.
Yeeeeeeeee
I just fuckin read this n im dying of laughter
Reagan:Can you just let them have the islands?
Thatcher:Fookin laser sights
Reagan:ok heres some weapons
GPS satellites, unmanned drones, fookin laser sights
I wonder if thatcher actually fought in this war
-he probably didn't-
You mean she. And she was 57 by the time the war started. Sure, let's send a 57 year old woman, who is also the prime minister, to go and fight.
You didn't get the joke, mate. Thatcher is an operator in the video game, "rainbow six siege", and is known for being SAS in that game and having a "fookin laser sights" meme.
The only thing that i know is that a 6 I N C H B L A D E never loses reception
"We are back in control, force them to surrender. Take what is ours, restore law and order." -Margaret Thatcher, June 14th, 1982
Sabaton Fan I see
@@ibbi32 Indeed I am.
BACK IN CONTROL PUSH THEM FURTHER OUT TO SEA
Back under British
well presented, I like the shorter videos and the animation was great :)
It's sad that both sides lost lives for no reason. WTF was Argentina thinking trying mess with Great Britain and their elite SAS in the first place?
The government was a dictatorship where if you were right winded they killed you, so to hide what they were doing, they started the war as an excuse
@@tomaszanetti2627 thats true im are argentino
SWAT BOI -YA “the American justice” you realize these were brits? And you kinda contradicted yourself
We were under a dictatorship
If you wanna you can read the book the other islands, it tells other historys about the falklands or el nunca mas that talks about the situation in argentina
The Royal Marines only surrendered after they had run out of all of their ammunition, just think that needs mentioning. One of them told an Argentine soldier "Don't get too comfortable here, mate, we'll be back"
Sure enough, all of the Marines that surrendered participated in the liberation of the Falkland Islands.
This commando myth is overrated. The Royal Marines have surrendered or blundered to the Iranians...they have defeats going back to the Suez canal crisis, Basrah 07 where the entire British army just left Iraq, Helmand 2010, Zeebrugge 1918...Petropavlovsk 1854, Peiho....etc You keep expecting them to deliver up on victories and they dont and when they get captured you come out with a storm of apologetics.
@@williameaton9058 in this case, it's entirely true.
William Eaton Well they may have a blotted track record, but they have this one to hold up
That's a lie they surrended after a couple of hours.
4 hours to be precise. With no Argentinian casualties, only a couple of wounded commandos.
This war didn’t end well for Argentina
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
They won the World Cup .. it made a lot of Argentinians happy
Did Argentina forget that conquering land in far away places had kinda been britain's hobby for like the last... oh i dunno 400 years.
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My Grandpa Fought there, he's dead now, but his memory will not be forgotten! He was part of the Royal Scots ! Scotland !
Matthew Wilson I'm so sorry my grandpa went in WWII. But when he came back he didn't tell my parents what he did. He fought in the Norwegian army.
If he is still alive, you respect him every moment you see him, my other Grandpa was in the French resistance in ww2 and he was sent to Auschwitz and he survived it. When he came back, he told ME everything. I am still in shock, since then I respect him for everything, help him do everything.... etc. Thats a lesson for everyone Respect veterans!
Matthew Wilson You're right :D
He was a hero for our nation.
Who ?
Argentina: The British won't do anything.
UK: Hold my tea
Ok
Gurkha 🤗
Y vos sosteneme esta
@@bhisansanjayal9205 Proud of my ancestors 😸
Tea is life 🇬🇧
There was a British bomber, Avro Vulcan if I'm correct that didn't have enough fuel and had to land in Brazil, they tried to drop their missiles on the sea but one of them failed, the crew were taken prisoners but were released later with their aircraft, but Brazil refused to return the missile and we almost had a situation with the Brits. Some said that the military did reversed engineering on the missile and the technology is still used today. Just for the context, from 1964 to 1985 Brazil was ruled by the Military.
Great video!.
I'm uruguayan and usually anything of the Falkland war is very biased in favor of Argentina, thanks for such an informative and neutral view of the war
Multitask gamer Pro Actually it seems to be a claim of the Island from Uruguay. I think the Falklands could be uruguayan
The only three Uruguayans in the channel lol
"Neutral"
Posta?
En serio? Me parece que onda en el internet los bias son mas para los ingleses jajaja
Nicolas Herrero y si porque son imperialistas. Por lo general la culpa de muchos problemas en muchas partes del mundo se reducen al imperialismo británico
Piece of land: *exist*
Great Britain: "it's free real estate"
I think you mean the entire world
The Moon: Exist
The UK: I would love to take it but I'll let the son have this one.
@@Captain_Yorkie1 jajaj CONFIRMO
@Kizza oh yes, they were gauchos from Argentina living there after the british abd french left the island.
Piece of land: has oil
America: it’s free real estate
I love that you made a drawing version of a photo in the falklands
I love your vids!
New York Accent: "AYYY, WHAT ABOUT THOSE FAWKIN ISLANDS?"
British Accent: "I suggest you forget about it, old chap."
I feel kinda racist, monsieur Rakesh, but "Tunak Tunak Tun tu dada da".
@@a4yster 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
comedy gold
a4yster I swear to god this is comedy gold
I love how the original english title says Falklands, but the spanish RUclips recommendation says Malvinas.
Dice lo que le conviene. El error esta en su reconendacion en "ingles"
Well Malvinas is Falklands in Spanish.
@@mapleflag6518
Realmente hay una traducción directa de Falklands a algún idioma?
Broke: Las Malvinas son Argentinas
Woke: The Falklands are British
Bespoke: Las Malvinas son Paraguayas
Because in Spanish we call them "Malvinas" is not the translation but it is the name in Spanish.
My Dad was a royal marine who fought in the Falklands! Nice 50+ Mile yomp with full kit and then fight he tells me pushed him to his limits
Fun Fact:
As the British sailors aboard the sinking HMS Sheffield were awaiting air evacuation, they were singing "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life", a famous song written by Eric Idle of the British comedy troupe Monty Python. The song is, as of 2014, the most popular song Britons would like played at their funerals. It is also a very popular song at football matches, especially by the losing teams. However, Ajax Amsterdam football fans started singing it after their victory over Real Madrid in March of 2019.
This is why they are mad at Top Gear.
shows a lot of argies aint changed aB bit
I remember that
H982 FKL
I mean, the Top Gear guy came here just to disrespect, awful.
@@MrRadamantz That was actually the original license plate of the car though when they bought it. It was just a terrible coincidence.
I don't see what's so controversial, the British owned the Falklands, and they defended it when they we're forcefully removed from the islands.
Well.. they forced argentinians out of the islands in 1833, where there was not a real defense.
CaptainRexTM since they claimed the islands in 1690 I think that predates 1833...a little bit
Actually, the islands were Argentinean until in 1833 the British arrived and conquered it, and I know that the UK as other countries wants more power and more power, the Islas Malvinas are territoriality Argentinean, Malvinas argentinas
Lucas Palomino you mean 1690 when the English originally arrived..and Argentina was a Spanish colony. So if it’s not british it would belong to Spain, not Argentina. Furthermore, you lost the war...
kcimb 😂👌🏼
Good job lads 🇬🇧👏👏👏well done !!!
So of the 240 dead Brits, they killed 649 and captured 11,000 all while Argentina held air superiority.
Damn, dont mess with the Brits.
well, the argentines were kids. The army was basically kids with no experience going to fight. Kind of fucked up eh? I wouldnt feel proud of killing a kid, specially when the britts sent special forces and ww2 veterans. That was honestly too much, im not even from argentina but i feel like that was too cruel.
@@SomeDude2346 it was war, cruel or unfair it doesn't matter. You wouldn't understand.
@@desertfoxxx98 Why wouldn't i? I know it was war, and that stuff happens. Im not ignorant in the facts of war. And i'm not saying that unfairness shouldnt happen. It happens all the time and its good. Prevents more lives to be lost. I was just mentioning it to Mark.
Mateo Telleria there were no ww2 veterans, just saying
Mateo Telleria it Was war and if you see a number of 649 soldiers dead you dont understand what it realy means
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Its now a battalion?
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IM HERE CAPTAIN
Oi! We hear ye
Spicy Leprechaun Stuff ready for duty
Came here to watch again after the top gear incident in Patagonia
Don't forget Britain's allies during this war, New Zealand and Chile both offered their support during the Falkland Conflict.
People, simple history needs donations not suggestions as to what video you believe they should make. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Yes
But there is... HA!
Tell em to get a job
Chris Wilson They have a job, this is their job.
USSC __ they didn't need donations when they started
As an America, I’ve gotta say I have huge respect for the British special forces and Royal Marines. There’s no doubt these guys are top tier.
Brandon Cole agreed.
Cheers dude 🇬🇧🇺🇸👊❤
Yes havnt got a spot on delta or spetznas
@@cjtn10 Sas are tier1 operators delta bases the training on sas selection yes delta have more funding but the sas are better soldiers
Me too as an Indian british army and military forces are awesome and no wonder why I love England 🇮🇳🇬🇧❤❤❤
fun fact: The enemies in this war has more respect to each other than the internet.
Of course. 9 yo kids will never understand war
one of my mom's friends had a son which went to the falklands
its been almost 40 years and hes still missing
3:57 ITS OVER ANAKIN
*T H I S I S N O T F U N N Y !*
Ok
It's over anakin I have the high ground haha
Why though why lmao 🤣
I HATE YOU!
"-and it's military believed that Britain would not try to regain the islands by force."
lol
The exclusion zone meant that ANY vessels within it may be attacked, from any nation. Enemy vessels were fair game no matter where they were, although I don't think any were engaged outside of the area.
The salt collected from the tears of the Argies is enough to over saturate the world's entire salt, oceans included
*Sees notification* VAMOS CARAJO.
Sees Falklands *Triggered in Argentinian*
La mayoría de los que no estudiaron bien las guerras jajajaja
*cries in argie*
C Lillie *argie angst*
Laughs in RAF
*SCREECHES IN VALORNA*
Great video!! 👍
Hay matsimus is here love your vids dude
The fact is the people who live there had a vote and all except 3 voted to stay a British overseas territory
I believe they were also protest votes, rather than intent
I well remember the Falklands War and was in my first year at senior school and celebrated my twelfth birthday five days before it ended. Simon Weston was badly burned during the conflict - another fact a recall. I had a commemorative booklet about the war, too.
I’m American but I have an Argentinan friend her father was involved in the Falkland war I think she said he was only 15-16 (we have not talked about this in awhile so details may be off) he was pretty injured he got shot two times he survived (I believe it was once in the shoulder and one in the leg) if he didn’t she wouldn’t be here and was treated very well. My memory may be off so yeah anyways she said he had about 2-3 weeks of training was he had no idea what was going on all he knew was he was going to that island. He was involved in one fight during that and he got shot a couple of times and according to her he doesn’t have any ptsd or anything among that sort of thing well besides a couple of scars.
wow 15?
Thank you very much simple history for being neutral
Repect the fallen from both sides!
Red ScoutTM Iam argentinian and i agree , I wish all people from both countries be in peace
iosif stalin
Well, how are both sides now ? Are they living together in peace or is there a quite - hate ?
Tino Now are like more... brothers fights
Tino Well here in Britain we don't hate the Argentinians, not sure about Argentina
they hate us . they chased top gear out of Argentina , when they were filming.
Do one on the Rhodesian bush war 👍🏻
Bob The builder I approve.
What a time it was
It's a long way to Mukumbura!
Grate video lots of info in a short amount of time, and covered a lot of military attacks and planning. Although you did forget the blackbuck raid on port Stanley carried out by the Vulcan Bomber and Victor tankers. It was and believe still is the longest bombing raid in history.
A veteran who survived this war and the ships who burnt came to my high school two or three years ago, hearing his story in his experience of the Falkland Wars was upsetting...
jake jones Cheers.
Damn, SAS u scary
maverick ling Ooh its the sbs you need to look out for. My grandfather knew a guy who was one way back, and he was not one to be fucked with
Its the Nepalese Gurkhas tbh
franco The SBS fight head on, the sas mostly fight behind enemy lines.
The gurkhas r scary af, once a gurkha ( part of the English military ) took on 30 talibans and killed all 30 😂 literally 1 vs 30 them and didnt even get grazed by a bullet
"Who dares wins"
Argentina: *invades Britain territory*
Britan: So you have chosen death?
Interesting I'm subscribe. Congratulations from Barcelona🎗.
This war was started by a cruel regime.... Yet for some reason I've encountered Argentinians that claim the British started it all and that the Falklands were supposed to be theirs. Funny they don't read anything beyond their own books
Sadly these are either kirchneristas or those who still reminisce the times of the dictatorship (odd I know).
So do the brits?
Same with pretty much every country to lose a war, some paraguayans Actually believe Brazil and Argentina were the agressors of the Paraguayan war
@@hoshghk Well I'm from america and I admit we lost the Vietnam war.
Alucard Helsing Not lost,retreated.
You guys didn't mention that the 80 Royal Marines downed an Argentinian helicopter and held off the initial Argentinian attack for a number of hours BEFORE surrendering.....
The warship Guerrico if anyone is wondering. Royal Marines put enough bazooka fire into it to disable its main gun, AA guns and Exocet launcher, plus sniper fire to disable its bridge and gave it a 30 degree list. Unfortunately bazookas are not designed to operate too well near water & spray, 3 of the bazooka rounds failed to detonate below the water line. Had they done so; by all estimates it would have sunk.
Crag_r I knew the garrison fought but I didn't know that how fascinating thanks!
I mean they are the Royal Marines literally the best of the best