Here We Go Again

[GrandmasterP]

If there is oil down there it could be in the Falkland Islanders interests to become independent.

 

[Tez3]

The Falklands are self financing, the UK tax payer only pays for the defence of it which admittedly is a lot. Those in my job are included in this total.

• 1,300 Service personnel plus around 50 MOD civil servants.
• Four Typhoon fast-jet aircraft
• VC-10 tanker aircraft
• Hercules C-130 aircraft
• Rapier surface-to-air missiles
• Frigate or Destroyer (currently Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose to be replaced by Type
45 destroyer HMS Dauntless)
• Royal Fleet Auxiliary Gold Rover
• HMS Clyde permanently stationed in the region as Falklands Patrol
• Infantry company currently from 2 Scots

 

[Tez3]

Do Americans realise that when the Argentinians gained independence they claimed the Falklands as their own and tried to put a settlement on the Islands which was destroyed by the Americans in retailiation for seizing American ships? The British have never thrown anyone off the Islands but the Americans did.

 

[Sukerkin]

What a convoluted web history can weave sometimes . Let's not talk about the Suez Canal, eh? :lol:

 

[Tez3]

What a convoluted web history can weave sometimes . Let's not talk about the Suez Canal, eh? :lol:

Or Grenada or the CIA in Chile.

 

[ballen0351]

Do Americans realise that when the Argentinians gained independence they claimed the Falklands as their own and tried to put a settlement on the Islands which was destroyed by the Americans in retailiation for seizing American ships? The British have never thrown anyone off the Islands but the Americans did.

Nope

 

[Tez3]

Nope

The American ships Harriet, Superior and Breakwater were catured for 'illegal seal hunting. As a reprisal, the United States consul in Buenos Aires sent Captain Silas Duncan of the USS Lexington to recover the confiscated property. After finding what he considered proof that at least four American fishing ships had been captured, plundered, and even outfitted for war, Duncan took seven prisoners aboard the Lexington and charged them with piracy.Also taken on board, Duncan reported, "were the whole of the (Falklands') population consisting of about forty persons, with the exception of some 'gauchos', or cowboys who were encamped in the interior." The group, principally German citizens from Buenos Aires, "appeared greatly rejoiced at the opportunity thus presented of removing with their families from a desolate region where the climate is always cold and cheerless and the soil extremely unproductive".
Measures were taken against the settlement, the log of the Lexington reports destruction of arms and a powder store, while settlers remaining later said that there was great damage to private property.[SUP][16][/SUP] Towards the end of his life, Luis Vernet authorised his sons to claim on his behalf for his losses stemming from the raid. In the case lodged against the US Government for compensation, rejected by the US Government of President Cleveland in 1885, Vernet stated that the settlement was destroyed.


Have to cut and run, am on nights will get back to this later.

 

[Sukerkin]

Is there no end to the brazenness of the 'chancer' that for some baffling reason is heading Argentina into a conflict it will not be able to afford?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21835363