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	ARA General Belgrano
		The General Belgrano, named after General Manuel Belgrano[?], was a Argentinian naval (Armada Republica Argentina, ARA) warship sunk on May 2, 1982 during the Falklands War.
		The General Belgrano had left Ushuaia[?] on April 26 with two destroyers, the Piedra Buena (D-29) and the Bouchard (D-26, both also ex-USN vessels), as Task Group 79.3.
		The other two ARA destroyers dispersed fearing they too would be attacked as they were no match for a nuclear submarine, one to the north west and the other in a southerly direction..
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ar/ARA_General_Belgrano.html (382 words)

	Falklands War Encyclopedia Article @ GetitFreeHere.com (Get It Free Here) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This viewpoint was encouraged by the planned withdrawal as part of a general reduction of the Royal Navy in 1981 of the last of the Antarctic Supply vessels, the icebreaker HMS Endurance, and by the British Nationality Act of 1981, which replaced the full British citizenship of Falkland Islanders with a more limited version.
		The two destroyers supporting the ARA General Belgrano and the task force built around the aircraft carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo both withdrew from the area, ending the direct threat to the British fleet that their pincer movement had represented.
		The attack on ARA General Belgrano was the second time since the end of the Second World War that a submarine had fired torpedoes in wartime and the only time that a nuclear powered submarine has done so.
	www.getitfreehere.com /encyclopedia/Falklands_War (8482 words)

	Falklands War - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The loss of General Belgrano hardened the stance of the Argentine government and also became a cause celebre for anti-war campaigners (such as Labour MP Tam Dalyell), who declared that the ship had been sailing away from the Falklands at the time.
		The two destroyers supporting General Belgrano and the task force built around the aircraft carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo both withdrew from the area, ending the direct threat to the British fleet that their pincer movement had represented.
		The attack on General Belgrano was the second time since the end of World War II that a submarine had fired torpedoes in wartime and the only time that a nuclear powered submarine has done so.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Falklands_War (9715 words)

	Manuel Belgrano information information - Search.com
		Belgrano was one of the leaders of the Argentine Declaration of Independence (1816-07-09).
		The warship ARA General Belgrano, which was sunk during the Falklands War, was named after him.
		A small town in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, Villa General Belgrano, is also named after him, as well as "Avenida Belgrano" in the City of Buenos Aires, and part of the avenue that leads to the Flag Memorial in Rosario (Avenida Belgrano).
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	ARA_General_Belgrano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy cruiser sunk, with significant loss of life, in a controversial incident during the Falklands War.
		Falklands War The sinking of the Belgrano was celebrated with one of the most infamous headlines in history from the British tabloid newspaper The Sun.
		The General Belgrano had left Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego on April 26, 1982, with two destroyers, the ARA Piedra Buena (D-29) and the Bouchard (D-26) (both also ex-USN vessels), as Task Group 79.3.
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		Thier passive sonars heard the sounds of Belgrano's boilers exploding as she sank, which was what the British mistook for a poorly-aimed depth charge attack.
		HMS Conqueror escaped unscathed to report that she had damaged the cruiser, while the General Belgrano slipped beneath the waves at 1645, taking 323 Argentine sailors and all hope of a peaceful settlement with her.
		In 2003 a National Geographic expedition was mounted with the assistance of the Argentine Navy to locate the wreck of the General Belgrano at the reported sinking position, about 100 miles off the southern coast of Argentina in 13,800 feet of water.
	www.bobhenneman.info /belgrano.htm (2186 words)

	Submarine - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The pressure hull is generally constructed of thick high-strength steel with a complex structure and high strength reserve, and is separated with watertight bulkheads into several compartments.
		Military submarines are generally divided into attack submarines, designed to operate against enemy ships, including other submarines, in a hunter-killer role, or strategic ballistic-missile submarines, designed to launch attacks on land-based targets from a position of stealth, also known as "boomers" in the United States Navy or "bombers" in the Royal Navy.
		The sinking of the antiquated cruiser ARA General Belgrano by HMS Conqueror was the first sinking by a nuclear-powered submarine in war.
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	BELGRANO \| Rastreador Web.com.ar
		The sinking of the Belgrano was celebrated with one of the most infamous...
		Belgrano is a leafy, northern barrio or neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires,...
		The General Belgrano is destroyed in a controversial move by the Royal Navy off the disputed Falklands Islands - a thousand men are believed to be on board.
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	ARA General Belgrano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Belgrano as she was in 1941 as the USS Phoenix passing Battleship row at [[Pearl Harbor]] The ARA General Belgrano was an Armada Republica Argentina cruiser sunk with significant loss of life in a controversial incident during the Falklands War.
		Although the sinking of the Belgrano was a military success, controversy appeared immediately with some people claiming that it made Argentine military government to harden their stand.
		In 1983, Margaret Thatcher appeared on a live phone-in show on BBC, where a viewer grilled her about the sinking, claiming that the ship was already west of Falklands and heading towards the Argentinian mainland to the west.
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	Charm Vials and Charm Flasks from Peru ARA General Belgrano: Information From Answers Reference/Encyclopedia/ARA ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The General Belgrano had left Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego on April 26, 1982 with two destroyers, the ARA Piedra Buena (D-29) and the Bouchard (D-26) (both also ex-USN vessels), as Task Group 79.
		General History She was built as USS Phoenix (CL-46), the sixth of the Brooklyn-class light cruisers, in New Jersey by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation starting in 1935, and launched in March 1938.
		Controversy over the sinking Although the sinking of the Belgrano was a military success, controversy appeared immediately with some people claiming that it caused the Argentine military government to harden their stand.
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	ARA General Belgrano Falklands War cruiser New York Shipbuilding Corporation Tierra del Fuego destroyer HMS torpedo May ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The ARA General Belgrano was an Armada Rep?ca Argentina cruiser sunk with significant loss of life in a controversial incident during the Falklands War.
		She was renamed the 17 de Octubre after an important date for the political party of the then president Juan Per?He was overthrown in 1955, and in 1956 the vessel was renamed the General Belgrano (C-4) after General Manuel Belgrano, who had fought for Argentine independence in 1816.
		Although the sinking of the Belgrano was a military success, controversy appeared immediately with some people claiming that it caused the Argentine military government to harden their stand.
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	ARA General Belgrano - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		She was decommissioned from the US Navy (USN) in July 1946, and sold with another of her class to Argentina in October 1951, for $7.8 million.
		She was renamed the 17 de Octubre, but following the 1955 overthrow of Presidente Juan Perón, in 1956 the vessel was named the General Belgrano (C-4) after General Manuel Belgrano, who had fought for Argentine independence in 1816.
		The other two ARA destroyers, lacking anti-nuclear-submarine defenses, dispersed lest they also be attacked, one to the northwest and the other in a southerly direction.
	education.music.us /A/ARA-General-Belgrano.htm (716 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Galazi, former second in command of the Belgrano at the time it was sunk, was accompanied by Castro Madero, who served on the stricken cruiser as a Lieutenant Commander and who the Argentine Navy appointed as its overseer for this expedition.
		Twenty one years after the sinking of the Belgrano, the former USS Phoenix which had survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, the circumstances surrounding this incident still arises strong passions.
		While the experts now scrutinise the evidence to try to determine where the Belgrano now lies four kms under the South Atlantic waters, we can remain assured that the controversy surrounding the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano is unlikely to go away.
	www.mercopress.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=1974 (2003 words)

	National Geographic Channel
		As the enormous warship began to sink, her remaining shell-shocked crewmembers scrambled onto life rafts and plunged into the near-freezing waters of the South Atlantic Ocean.
		It is a tale of human struggle for survival against the backdrop of the British-Argentine war over the Falkland Islands, or Islas Malvinas.
		Many question whether the ship was ever a serious threat to the British fleet and to this day the attack remains steeped in controversy, more than twenty years after the guns of war fell silent.
	www.nationalgeographic.co.uk /explore/belgrano/home.asp (242 words)

	A-4Q Argentinean Skyhawk by Fabian Nevarez (Hobbycraft 1/48) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Even when flying old and obsolete aircraft and at the limits of their range, they gave their lives for their country against a far superior adversary who was backed up by much more modern equipment and supported by other superpowers.
		During the Argentinean reoccupation of Islas Malvinas on April 2nd, 1982, the country's only aircraft carrier, "ARA 25 de Mayo" was deployed as flagship of Task Force 20 for "Operacion Azul" (codename for amphibious landings near Port Stanley) carrying onboard the 3a.
		Later that day, ARA General Belgrano was sunk by its submarine shadow, and 25 de Mayo was ordered back to port to save it from similar fate, were it remained for the rest of the conflict.
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	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Three advocates of the view that the sinking of the Argentine Navy cruiser ARA General Belgrano during the 1982 South Atlantic war should be treated as a war crime this afternoon presented their case at “The Malvinas in the South American Union” seminar being held at the Foreign Ministry.
		The torpedoeing of the Belgrano on May 2, 1982, with the loss of 323 Argentine lives marked the moment when the confrontation in the South Atlantic turned into a full scale shooting war and was the largest single loss of life in the 10-week war, in which just under 1,000 people were killed.
		Despite the fact that the topic had been presented as “The sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano: War crime or casualty of war?” - none of the panelists presented the case that the sinking of the Belgrano may have been an act of war.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=6226 (780 words)

	National Geographic Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Sinking of the Belgrano/The Hunt for the Belgrano The sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano is making headlines all over again - 21 years after she was sunk by the British navy.
		The Belgrano was hit by two torpedoes from the British submarine Conqueror, but the aftershock was heard around the world.
		The Sinking of the Belgrano On May 2, 1982, the British submarine HMS Conqueror fired three torpedoes at the Argentine cruiser, the ARA General Belgrano.
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	General Belgrano sinking infringed crews human rights! - WW2inColor Talk
		When the Belgrano was attacked, was at 200 miles from the nearest british ship (taking as Argentina hadn't the possibility of know that a nuclear submarine was at two miles from the cruiser).
		I’m not so sure The Belgrano was in Argentine waters, near the Argentine cost, on the outsides of the Exclusion zone, unilaterally declared by the United Kingdom, and in a time when the war could had been possibly avoided.
		The Belgrano wasn’t at east of the Malvinas.
	www.ww2incolor.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3415 (4429 words)

	National Geographic Channel
		After nearly two weeks at sea, in extreme Southern Ocean weather conditions, the National Geographic expedition to locate the warship ARA General Belgrano has ended.
		The Belgrano, believed to be located approximately 100 nautical miles off the coast of Tierra del Fuego at 13,800 feet of water, was not found by the expedition.
		The expedition will be included in a National Geographic documentary, “The Sinking of the Belgrano,” that will premiere on National Geographic Channel in the UK and Argentina in late May. In the UK and Argentina, later broadcasts on Channel 4 and Channel 13, respectively, are planned.
	www.ngc.tv /press/ngc_BelgranoEnded.aspx (304 words)

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		Even though Argentina started the war as a political diversion to hide the 'disappearance' of tens of thousands and in the face of British attempts to transfer the Falklands to Argentina without antagonizing the English voter.
		The ARA General Belgrano was a WWII era American Cruiser, the U.S.S. Phoenix that actually survived Pearl Harbor.
		Some 323 Argentine lives were lost out of a crew of 1,093 when the Belgrano was torpedoed by the British nuclear submarine, H.M.S. Conqueror on May 2, 1982.
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		Adding to the confusion, the crew of the ARA Bouchard felt an impact that was possibly the third torpedo striking at the end of its run (an examination of the ship later showed an impact mark consistent with a torpedo).
		ArtyEngineer RE:A bit of history: 2 May 1982: 1982 - Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sinks ARA General Belgrano 5/3/2006 12:39:55 AM I do believe she flew the broom as well, if there is one service in the world that will stick to tradition regardless of PC'ness its the Royal Navy!!!!!!
		AMTP10E RE:A bit of history: 2 May 1982: 1982 - Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sinks ARA General Belgrano 5/3/2006 6:27:46 AM At 15:57 on May 2, Conqueror fired three conventional Mk 8 mod 4 torpedoes, each with an 800 lb (363 kg) Torpex warhead, two of which hit the General Belgrano.
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	Churchill class submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Conqueror was the most famous of the class, sinking the Argentina cruiser ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
		After the war Conqueror returned to Faslane; the sinking of the Belgrano had provoked some controversy in Britain and Conqueror's crew were criticised for flying the Jolly Roger as she returned to port, a customary act of Royal Navy submarines after a mission on which a "kill" has been scored.
		As of 2006, she was the only nuclear powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Churchill_class_submarine (468 words)

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