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)

    Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.
    Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)