Resistencia, City of Sculptures, Argentina

The Falkland/Malvinas Islands War

In 1982 Britain went to war to protect 1,800 British subjects who lived on the Falkland Islands. These Falklanders had been invaded by Argentina. The islands are 8,000 miles away from Britain. Why would Britain send men, battleships, everything she’s got, to fight for a tiny speck of land and a handful of people way down near the South Pole?

First of all, because she could. Secondly, the Argentinians were trespassing. There is absolutely nothing on the islands to suggest anything remotely Argentinian. In fact, a young sailor from Buenos Aires remarked how odd it seemed to him that the islands were nothing like home. Nothing seemed familiar. Everything was foreign, especially the houses and people. And the islands had been British for hundreds of years.