To: qlangley
I admit I should know more about this than I do. Just why does Argentina want the Falklands so badly they'd go to war?
prisoner6
2 posted on
06/27/2006 1:55:40 AM PDT by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
To: prisoner6
> Just why does Argentina want the Falklands so badly they'd go to war?
IIRC (someone correct me if I'm wrong?) the Malvinas Islands were surrendered by Argentina sometime in the 1820's to the British as settlement in consequence of defaulting on loans made by Barings Bank (?), to build a railway that went belly-up...?
4 posted on
06/27/2006 2:10:16 AM PDT by
DieHard the Hunter
(I am the Chieftain of my Clan. I bow to nobody. Get out of my way.)
To: prisoner6
To focus the thoughts of the people on something other than the government.
Also, since they got their butts kicked, a little revenge.
South Georgia a great bit further east has no people, if I recall correctly.
9 posted on
06/27/2006 5:47:19 AM PDT by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: prisoner6; DieHard the Hunter
My mistake, in my previous post I said the first Argentinian occupation was ended in 1831, it was actually 1833. 1831 was the year the Argentinian settlement there was destroyed by a US warship. The Argentinian penal colony stayed until 1833.
The rest of my post stands. Both Argentinian occupations were pretty brief affairs, amounting to less than 9 years in total.
13 posted on
06/27/2006 6:17:27 AM PDT by
qlangley
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