Falklands War
When considering the British response to the Argentine landing on the Falkland Islands in 1982, at the start of the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), Margaret Thatcher was advised of the potential risk that a military response might pose to Anglo-Argentines. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were halted that year, and were normalised in 1990.
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Famous quotes containing the words falklands and/or war:
“If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.”
—British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)
“The remnant of Indians thereabout—all but exterminated in their recent and final war with regular white troops, a war waged by the Red Men for their native soil and natural rights—had been coerced into the occupancy of wilds not far beyond the Mississippi.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)