Falklands Crisis

Falklands Crisis can refer to:

  • Falklands Crisis (1770), a dispute over the Falkland Islands between Great Britain and Spain.
  • Falklands War (1982), the invasion of the Falklands by Argentina and their subsequent recapture by British forces.

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)

    The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from the sleep of passions to their rage.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)