Falklands Crisis (1770)
The Falklands Crisis of 1770 was a diplomatic standoff between Britain and Spain over possession of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. These events were nearly the cause of a war between France, Spain and Britain. The countries poised to dispatch armed fleets to contest the barren but strategically important sovereignty.
Ultimately, a lack of French support for Spain defused tension, and Spain and Britain reached an inconclusive compromise in which both nations maintained their settlements and neither relinquished their sovereignty claim to the islands.
Read more about Falklands Crisis (1770): Background, Crisis, British Response, Spanish Compromise, Aftermath
Famous quotes containing the words falklands and/or crisis:
“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)
“It is necessary to turn political crisis into armed crisis by performing violent actions that will force those in power to transform the military situation into a political situation. That will alienate the masses, who, from then on, will revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things.”
—Carlos Marighella (d. 1969)