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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina, pronounced [reˈpuβlika aɾxenˈtina]), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land...
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Falklands War
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur), also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom (UK) over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the...
Battle of Mount Harriet
The Battle of Mount Harriet was an engagement of the Falklands War, which took place on the night of 11/12 June 1982 between British and Argentine forces. It was one of three battles in a brigade-size operation on the same night.
The British force...
Battle of Goose Green
The Battle of Goose Green (28–29 May 1982) was an engagement of the Falklands War between British and Argentine forces. Goose Green had little strategic value to the overall aim of recapturing the capital Stanley but, as it was a significant...
Battle of Mount Longdon
The Battle of Mount Longdon was an engagement of the Falklands War between British and Argentine forces, which took place on 11–12 June 1982, resulting in a British victory.
The British force consisted of 3 PARA under Lieutenant Colonel Hew Pike ...
Battle of Wireless Ridge
The Battle of Wireless Ridge was an engagement of the Falklands War which took place on the night of 13 June and 14 June 1982, between British and Argentine forces during the advance towards the Argentine-occupied capital of the Falklands Stanley....
Battle of Two Sisters
The Battle of Two Sisters was an engagement of the Falklands War during the British advance towards the capital Stanley that took place on the 11/12 June 1982.
The British force consisted of 45 Commando (45 CDO), Royal Marines under Lieutenant...
Battle of Mount Tumbledown
The Battle of Mount Tumbledown was an engagement in the Falklands War, one of a series of battles that took place during the British advance towards Stanley.
On the night of 13 June – 14 June 1982, the British launched an assault on Mount Tumbledown...
War of the Triple Alliance
The War of the Triple Alliance, also known as the Paraguayan War, and the Great War in Paraguay itself, was fought from 1864 to 1870, and caused more deaths than any other South American war. It was fought between Paraguay and the allied countries...
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands
On 2 April 1982, Argentine forces mounted amphibious landings of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas). The invasion involved initial defence organised by the Falkland Islands' Governor Sir Rex Hunt giving command to Major Mike Norman of...
Operation Desert Thunder
Operation Desert Thunder was a response to threats by Iraq's president Saddam Hussein to shoot down U-2 spy planes, and violate the no-fly zone set up over his country. The operation was designed to bring stability to the region by bringing in a...
Battle of Curupaity
The Battle of Curupayty was a key battle in the War of the Triple Alliance.
On the morning of September 22, 1866, the joint force of the Imperial (Brazilian), Argentine and Uruguayan armies attacked Paraguayan fortified trenches on Curupaity. The...
Battle of Tuyutí
The Battle of Tuyutí was a Paraguayan offensive in the War of the Triple Alliance. The allied victory added to the Paraguayan troubles that began with a failed offensive and continued with the loss of its fleet in the Battle of Riachuelo.
In early...
Piquissiri maneuver
The Piquissiri maneuver was a tactical move by Brazilian commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Marquês de Caxias in the War of the Triple Alliance. Paraguayan leader Francisco Solano López had concentrated his troops in a strong position across...
Battle of Jataí
The Battle of Jataí in the War of the Triple Alliance occurred on August 17, 1865. A column of the Paraguayan Army under major Pedro Duarte is attacked by forces of the Triple Alliance commanded by Uruguay's president Venancio Flores.
Argentina–Brazil War
The Argentina–Brazil War (Portuguese: Guerra da Cisplatina; Spanish: Guerra del Brasil) was an armed conflict over an area known as Banda Oriental or "Eastern Shore" (roughly present-day Uruguay) in the 1820s between the United Provinces of the Río...
Battle of Monte Santiago
The naval Battle of Monte Santiago was one of many naval encounters during the Argentina-Brazil War (1825-1828).
While many of them were inconclusive, this battle proved to be a major loss for the small Argentine Navy.
While the Imperial Navy of...
War of the Confederation
The War of the Confederation (also known in Chile as the Chilean-Confederation war) (1836 - 1839), was a conflict between the Peru-Bolivian Confederation (Southern Peruvians and Bolivia) on one side, and Chile, Argentina, and Northern Peruvians ...
Raid on Pebble Island
The Raid on Pebble Island took place on 14-15 May 1982 during the Falklands War. Pebble Island is part of the Falkland Islands.
Immediately after the Argentines had seized the Falkland Islands they established a small airbase on Pebble Island using...
Battle of Top Malo House
The Battle of Top Malo House was fought on 31 May 1982 during the Falklands War, between 1st section Argentine Special Forces from 602 Commando Company and a patrol formed from staff and students of the British Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre, a...
Uruguayan Civil War
The Uruguayan Civil War, also known as "Guerra Grande", was a series of armed conflicts that took place between the Colorados at Montevideo and Blancos at Cerrito in Uruguay from 1839 to 1851. The efforts of the Colorados were supported by France,...
Battle of Seal Cove
The Battle of Seal Cove was a minor naval skirmish west of Lively Island, during the 1982 Falklands War. On May 22, 1982, while supporting Operation Sutton off San Carlos Bay, the British frigates HMS Brilliant and HMS Yarmouth received orders to...
Commandos Clash at Many Branch Point
On 10 June 1982, during the Falklands War, Many Branch Point, a ridge near Port Howard, in West Falkland, was the site of a minor skirmish between Argentine and British elite forces. The engagement ended with the death of the SAS patrol commander,...
Battle of Estero Bellaco
The Battle of Estero Bellaco was one of the bloodyiest battles of the Paraguayan War of the Triple Alliance.
This battle took place the May 2, 1866, the Paraguayan army lost 2,000 men. Also, three hundred were taken as prisoners by the troops of the...
Battle of Acosta Ñu
The Battle of Acosta Ñu or Campo Grande was a battle during the War of the Triple Alliance, where, in August 16, 1869, 20,000 men of the Triple Alliance fought Paraguayan forces made up of 6,000 soldiers, many of them children.
In the middle of 1869...
Platine War
The Platine War, also known as the War against Oribe and Rosas (August 18, 1851 – February 3, 1852) was fought between the Argentine Confederation and an alliance of the Empire of Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and...
The Passage of the Tonelero
The Passage of the Tonelero was a battle fought near the cliff of Acevedo, in the west bank of the Paraná River, Argentina, on 17 December 1851, between the Argentine Army commanded by Lucio Norberto Mansilla and Brazilian warships led by John...
Invasion of South Georgia
The Invasion of South Georgia (Spanish: Operación Georgias) took place on 3 April 1982, when Argentine naval forces seized control of the east coast of South Georgia after overpowering a small group of Royal Marines at Grytviken. The Argentine...
