Major Argue's company ceased firing and devoted all their efforts to a withdrawal from 'Fly Half' due to terrible situation. Peter Harclerode, a noted British historian of the Parachute Regiment, went on record, saying that: Vincent Bramley, Two Sides of Hell, p. 9, Bloomsbury Publishing Limited, 1994; published in Argentina as Los Dos Lados Del Infierno The Battle of Mount Longdon was a battle fought between the British 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment and elements of the Argentine 7th Infantry Regiment on 11–12 June 1982, towards the end of the Falklands War. It was one of three engagements in a Brigade-size operation that night, along with the Battle of Mount Harriet and the Battle of Two Sisters. A mixture of hand-to-hand fighting and ranged combat resulted in the British occupying this key position around the Argentine garrison at Port Stanley. The battle ended in a British victory.

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The story is larger but for us (argentinians) the first to invade the islands were the british in 1833. From 1833 to 1982 Argentina has tried by diplomatic ways to recover the islands, but then happened what we all know in 1982. When 3 PARA's B Company (under Major Mike Argue) fixed bayonets to storm the Argentine 1st Platoon positions on Mount Longdon, they found themselves trapped in a minefield. British sappers subsequently counted some 1,500 anti-personnel mines that Lieutenant Diego Arreseigor's platoon of Sappers from the 10th Mechanized Engineer Company had laid along the western and northern slopes of Mount Longdon. Corporal Peter Cuxson recalled, [45]Hop wrote:So the British government were being quite clear that the exclusion zones were in addition whatever self defence measures they thought necessary. See, Scouse he was a green-eyed boy/like the Airborne in Vietnam/or the German Fallschirmjäger/on the retreat from Stalingrad.... The swearing in English on the part of the Argentines [62] and the discovery of several dead Argentine Marines dressed in camouflaged uniforms at first led the Paras to believe they had encountered mercenaries from the United States. [47] Aftermath [ edit ] National Memorial Arboretum, plaque to Jason, Neil & Ian Batallón 5: El Batallón de Infantería de Marina No. 5 en la Guerra de las Malvinas, Emilio Villarino, p.93, Aller Atucha, 1992 With the best will in the world Paddy I can't be here 24hours a day. Englander's remarks were baseless,basic and encouragable in there formulation. and they were duly removed, as was your response.

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VGM Jorge "Beto" Altieri: "Yo defendí a la Patria y la Patria no me defiende… Yo necesito a la Patria…"BAHIANOTICIAS.COM 02/04/2009 Not so quite clear Hop, at least for this report made by the “Federación de Veteranos de Guerra de la República Argentina” (War Veterans Federation of the Republic of Argentina) where it says that those ‘additional measures’ were not informed: From my reading of it it has to do with the rights of neutral and Argentinian civilian vessels or aircraft entering the "zone". Not belegerant warships and support vessels. As a general point the conflict was fought according to the normal rules and usages of war and there were very few instances of 'war crimes' by either side. My research into this focused on the activities of one battalion of the British Army (3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment '3 Para') which had been the subject of an investigation by Scotland Yard, but in writing my book I examined a number of other purported examples of criminal behaviour by both sides. The Scotland Yard investigation was originally prompted by the publication in 1991 of a book by Vincent Bramley, a former Corporal with 3 Para, called 'Excursion to Hell'. In this book, Bramley described witnessing the shooting of an Argentine POW after the battle of Mount Longdon on 12 June 1982 and journalists who followed up this story also heard rumours of other similar events. a b "Malvinas en Primera Persona" - Mis Entrevistas - PARTE 1, Tte Cnl (R) Hugo Quiroga (17-03-2021)

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Major Carrizo-Salvadores manoeuvred Castañeda's reinforced platoon to close with 4 and 5 Platoons; meanwhile, under the direction of Corporal Jorge Daniel Arribas, part of Castañeda's platoon converged on the British aid post. Colour Sergeant Brian Faulkner, seeing that more than 20 wounded Paras on the western slopes of the mountain were about to fall into the hands of Corporal Arribas, deployed anyone fit enough to defend the position. politically motivated…”: I could give you several sources (including british) saying that it was politically motivated but, as I said in my previous post, I don’t think I’m going to change your mind. As one of my books has been cited in the debate above, perhaps I can make a few observations about the subject of war crimes in the Falklands conflict.

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Confirman el juzgamiento por torturas en Malvinas, (In Spanish), Clarín, Buenos Aires, 27 June 2009 Iltis wrote:We seem to be talking about "heat of battle" conduct here rather than "war crimes" as such, I'd suggest its very easy to sit in our comfortable chairs assessing actions 20 years ago, unless we have been in the situation it is impossible to judge men who acted as these did. Longdon was the most likely objective for his Battalion. He set up a patrol base in the area of the Murrell Bridge, protected by 4 Platoon from B Company. The Battalion's patrols staged through this patrol base, reducing the distance that they had to travel to reach Mount Longdon and return to the main position each night." 3 Commando Brigade in the Falklands, Julian Thomson, Pen & Sword, 2008 La historia de dos ex enemigos en Malvinas frente a frente - Edición Impresa". Archived from the original on 3 April 2012 . Retrieved 18 January 2014. Other rumours about 'war crimes' by both sides are just that: rumours. It was a relatively 'neat' conflict and it has been possible to establish the circumstances in which almost all the casualties met their deaths with enough certainty to be sure that war crimes were extremely rare.verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Baldini was later heavily criticized by veterans for being indifferent and selfish toward his men, although this seems to have come from several petulant soldiers who failed to appreciate his efforts to keep them alive in difficult conditions. [24] a b The other companies had skirted one minefield on their approach and Staff Sergeant Pete Thorpe of Condor Troop Royal Engineers was later to lose his foot on a mine while trying to extract a damaged vehicle with injured gunners, near Murrell Bridge. The Yompers: With 45 Commando in the Falklands War, Ian Gardiner, p. 161, Pen & Sword, 2012 a b La Guerra Inaudita: Historia del Conflicto del Atlántico Sur, Rubén Oscar Moro, p. 479-480, Pleamar, 01/01/1985