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January 1765, when the Union Jack was first displayed in the Falklands
January 23rd., 1765 is a milestone date for the Falkland Islands, the first time the Union Jack was erected and displayed in the Islands, which were then taken formal possession for the British Crown. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesRule Britannia - how pathetic, living in the past as usual. 99% of Brits in UK don't give a damn and we are angry that our taxes are used to bail out these latter-day colonialists. The average Argie does not want to live there either in the freezing cold so they should come to some agreement with BA and end this costly farce once and for all. But ther is oppoition from the posh people in the UK armed forces who see the 'Argentine thrat' as a way of asking for a bigger defense budget - spend the money on better health and education for our children here, we say.
Jan 25th, 2024 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse -5Pyat
Jan 25th, 2024 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse +4Have you ever heard the English expression 'talking bollocks'? Well that is what you are doing.
It's about time you gave up pretending to be British as everyone knows you're not!
Here's a clue, nobody who is British would spell 'defence' as 'defense'. not to mention your use of the word 'they' to describe the UK
As tro££s go you're not very good at it. Perhaps you should get a proper job.
Spain recognises the British right to the Falklands.
Jan 25th, 2024 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse +3Falklands -1771 Agreement Between Britain and Spain : https://www.academia.edu/112776104/Falklands_1771_Agreement_Between_Britain_and_Spain
Pytangua, we are angry ?, i doubt very much that you are British,
Jan 25th, 2024 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +4I am afraid that david Tatham was inaccurate.
Jan 26th, 2024 - 01:04 am - Link - Report abuse +4Byron described the “Harbour of Port Egmont”.
”“At 3 in the morning made Sail & steered in for the Land to look for a Harbour. … About 3 in the Afternoon the Weather clearing again I tacked & stood in again & presently after saw a Boat a long way to leeward of us. I bore down to her & found it to be the Tamar's boat with Mr. Hindman in her the 2nd Lieut. He had ventured off … to inform me that he had found a very fine Harbour; We immediately stood in for it & found it answer far beyond my expectation. The Entrance is about a Mile over & no danger going in, the depth of water from 10 to 7 fm., close to the shore. It forms two little Bays on the Starboard side where Ships might anchor with safety, both of them has a fine Rivulet of fresh water, but if you chuse to go into Port Egmont (which I so named after the Earl of Egmont) I think it without
exception one of the finest Harbours I ever saw in my Life.” [Byron's Journal quoted in Gallagher 1964. Also Hawkesworth 1773 vol.1 p.46.]
A harbour, is a sheltered body of water. Port Egmont, therefore was the body of sea lying between Saunders Isand, Keppel Island and West Falkland.
It was not on Saunders Island.
Detail on a map from 1770
https://falklandstimeline.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/egmont-1770.png
The devil is always in the detail ;-)
@Pytangua, how much money does the UK government use to “bail out these latter-day colonialists” , exactly? Please list it all.
Jan 28th, 2024 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse +1The cost of defending the Islands is currently met by Her Majesty's Government, and is estimated to amount 0.177% of the total UK Defence budget annually. Beyond the cost of defence, the Falkland Islands do not receive any further financial assistance from the United Kingdom.
Jan 28th, 2024 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse +1https://www.falklands.gov.fk/self-sufficiency/
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