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2006-07-14 03:58:39 · 12 answers · asked by pajaro caliente 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
in January 1690, English sailor John Strong, captain of the Welfare, was heading for Puerto Deseado (in Argentina), but driven off course by contrary winds, he reached the Sebald Islands instead and landed at Bold Cove. He sailed between the two principal islands and called the passage "Falkland Channel" (now Falkland Sound), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland (1659-1694), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and who later became First Lord of the Admiralty. From this body of water the island group later took its collective English name.
The first settlement on the Falkland Islands, called Port Saint Louis, was founded by the French navigator and military commander Louis Antoine de Bougainville in 1764 on Berkeley Sound, in present-day Port Louis, East Falkland.
Unaware of the French presence, in January 1765, English captain John Byron explored and claimed Saunders Island, at the western end of the group, where he named the harbour of Port Egmont, and sailed near other islands, which he also claimed for King George III of Great Britain. A British settlement was built at Port Egmont in 1766. Also in 1766, Spain acquired the French colony, and after assuming effective control in 1767, placed the islands under a governor subordinate to Buenos Aires. Spain attacked Port Egmont, ending the British presence there in 1770, but Britain returned in 1771 and remained until 1774. Upon her withdrawal in 1774 Britain left behind a plaque asserting her claims, but from then on Spain ruled unchallenged, maintaining a settlement until 1811. On leaving in 1811, Spain, too, left behind a plaque asserting her claims.
When Argentina declared its independence from Spain in 1816, it laid claim to the islands according to the uti possidetis principle, as they had been under the administrative jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata. Following a proclamation of annexation in 1820, actual occupation began in 1826 with the foundation of a settlement and a penal colony. The settlement was destroyed by United States warship in 1831 after the Argentinian governor of the islands Luis Vernet seized U.S. seal hunting ships during a dispute over fishing rights. They left behind escaped prisoners and pirates. In November 1832, Argentina sent another governor who was killed in a mutiny. In January 1833, British forces returned, took control, repatriated the remainder of the Argentine settlement, and began to repopulate the islands with British citizens.
The Royal Navy built a base at Stanley, and the islands became a strategic point for navigation around Cape Horn. The World War I naval battle, the Battle of Falkland Islands took place in December 1914, with a British victory over the Germans. During World War II, Stanley served as a Royal Navy station and serviced ships which took part in the Battle of the River Plate.
2006-07-14 04:14:52 · answer #1 · answered by The Wanderer 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Malvinas should be Argentine, but British colonial and imperialist habits die hard which was why they sent working class soldiers to go and die to reclaim them so that Thatcher would win the following year's general election- but they did the same in Ireland too- ordinary men and women set up as cannon fodder and to slaughter each other so the ruling classes could stay in power. Thatcher and Blair- kept in power by the blood of innocent people.
2006-07-14 04:12:24 · answer #2 · answered by rednotdead1976 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Falkland's are British full stop.The only ones who can change that are the Islanders themselves>They like every other Colony in the World have the "right of SELF-DETERMINATION".So Argentina should stop claiming the Islands and fix their own Country,we are in the 21st century not The 18th.
2006-07-14 05:30:50 · answer #3 · answered by rocksolidgibraltar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Argentina claims to these islands was preceded by British claim and settlement, which was before Argentina was even a country. They belong to Great Britain.
2006-07-14 04:09:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there not. Legally and through war started by the Argeys we have the right to them. Sorry but that's the way it is and no your not having your ball back either.
2006-07-14 04:41:17 · answer #5 · answered by deadly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deluded W*nker!
2006-07-14 05:20:56 · answer #6 · answered by Trevor h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Las Malvinas, should belong to Argentina, but they belong to UK.
Why is this? I cant understand!
2006-07-14 04:03:27 · answer #7 · answered by ogloriad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong , Wrong Wrong my little Argentinian friend , The Falklands are English ..... can you not remember the 80's.......... general belgrano and all that ?
Rule Brittania
2006-07-14 04:06:09 · answer #8 · answered by oilworker2525 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i do believe the falklands belong to us
so u sit done and behave or we will come over and spank ur little arses again
2006-07-14 04:07:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they will need the real hand, of the real god to get them,
so I guess it,s not on. sorry! dick head
2006-07-14 08:16:38 · answer #10 · answered by osprey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋