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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Battle of Mount Longdon
		The Battle of Mount Longdon was an engagement of the Falklands War between British and Argentinian forces, which took place on the 11th/12 June 1982, resulting in a British victory.
		(Jon Cooksey, 3 PARA Mount Longdon: The Bloodiest Battle, pp.
		The actual number of Argentine killed on Mount Longdon during this period was two - a Marine Conscript (Jorge Inchauspe) and one Engineer Conscript (Jose Curima) being killed by Harrier attacks on 10 and 11 June.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Battle_of_Mount_Longdon (3173 words)

	Top Literature - Falklands War
		Argentina's original intention was to mount a quick symbolic occupation, quickly followed by a withdrawal, and only a small garrison was left to support the new military governor.
		In a seperate incident it is estimated that 40 Argentine Commandos were involved in a battle with the SAS and the Cadre.
		During this battle, thirteen were killed when HMS Glamorgan, which was providing naval gunfire support, was struck by an Exocet fired from the back of a truck, further displaying the vulnerability of ships to anti-ship missiles.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Falklands_War (9937 words)

	The Falklands War (1982) / La Guerra de Las Malvinas (1982)
		Due to the mounting pressures on the government, and mass union demonstrations in late March, the date of the invasion is moved earlier to April 2nd in an act of desperation.
		The battle on this heavily defended position, which was supposed to last until dawn, proves much tougher and longer than expected.
		Mount Longdon and its surroundings are finally taken after hand to hand and bayonet fighting with the Argentine troops position by position.
	www.yendor.com /vanished/falklands-war.html (3083 words)

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		With minefields to the south, the Argentines on Wireless Ridge to the east, and given the long and narrow summit ridge of Mount Longdon, Lt Col Pike decided to launch a silent attack from the west.
		As B Coy (4, 5 and 6 Platoons) approached Mount Longdon in the dark, on the left, one of 4 Platoon's men stepped on a mine and the alerted Argentines opened fire at the start of a battle that stretched through to dawn, ten hours later.
		With little hope of making progress, A Coy was pulled back to the western end of Longdon, moved through B Coy, and with artillery and GPMG support, 1 and 2 Platoons worked their way along the eastern half of the summit clearing the enemy positions with rifle and bayonet and grenades.
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/512-29266.asp (780 words)

	A Night to Remember
		With the weather closing in and resupply becoming a problem, the high ground of Mount Longdon was a key objective of 3 Commando Brigade's plan of advance.
		Company 3 para getting their brief to go on Mount Longdon, Major Dennison OC SP COY, is standing on the right giving the brief, on the floor is a rough model of Longdon, the tall thin man in the front is Cpt Tony Mason Anti Tanks.
		A left flanking attack was mounted on the 50-cal position supported by machine gun fire from the summit of the mountain and mortar and artillery fire.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Falklands/mt-longdon.htm (2255 words)

	eBay.co.uk - the battle for, Games, Non-Fiction Books, DVDs items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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	search.ebay.co.uk /the-battle-for_W0QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ19 (530 words)

	Mount Longdon - ARRSEpedia
		The Argentines were poorly led and deployed, and B Coy had actually unwittingly penetrated their position before the element of surprise was lost when a Corporal stepped on a mine.
		Longdon was the second major land battle of the Falklands War and the costliest.
		A poor fire plan (this was partly reversed by the intervention of Captain Willie McCracken MC, RA, an NGLO accompanying 3 Para who brought in pin-point fire from Royal Navy ships) which didn't allow the 3 Para Mortar Platoon to begin effective fire for some hours after the main body had crossed the start line.
	www.arrse.co.uk /wiki/Mount_Longdon (355 words)

	Falklands Battle compilation
		The Battle of Mount Harriet was an engagement of the Falklands War which took place on the night of 11/12th June 1982 between British and Argentinian forces.
		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 Argentinian forces during the advance towards the Argentinian occupied capital of the Falklands Port Stanley.
		The Battle of Mount Tumbledown was an engagement of the Falklands War which took place on the 13th/14th June 1982, and was part of a series of battles that took place during the advance towards Port Stanley.
	fs.huntingdon.edu /jlewis/Syl/IRcomp/303-321Falklands82WarWiki.htm (14963 words)

	Mount Longdon, 3 Para in Falklands War 1982
		Mount Longdon, 3 Para in Falklands War 1982
		(In the actual battle, A Coy was unable to reach 'Wing Forward' and took over from B Coy the taking of 'Full Back'.
		in the dark, on the left, one of 4 Platoon's men stepped on a mine and the alerted Argentines opened fire at the start of a battle that stretched through to dawn, ten hours later.
	www.naval-history.net /F54longdon.htm (680 words)

	Green-eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon \| Funny UK Comedy
		3 Para: Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Battle
		The CO Huw Pike's determination to launch an early (and in the view of most of his officers and men suicidal) unsupported attack on Longdon is described in detail.
		Some seeming very good analysis of strategic mistakes made and very evocative descriptions of the extraordinary courage of all ranks in the face of heavy and sustained losses is marred by a somewhat gratuitous slagging off of several officers.
	www.funny.co.uk /comedy/prod_0-000638448X-Greeneyed-Boys-3-Para-and-the-Battle-for-Mount-Longdon.html (568 words)

	Battlefields
		At 1,500 feet, Mount Kent is the highest peak of the mountains surrounding Stanley and forms the head of the valley leading down to the town.
		The battle for Mount Longdon proved the costliest for British troops with fierce battles during the night prior to the Argentine surrender on June 14, 1982.
		As the Scots Guards advanced under the cover of night on Mount Tumbledown, English troops simultaneously began their assault on Wireless Ridge, which served as the last Argentine position of strength on the north side of Stanley.
	www.falklandtravel.com /Battlefields.htm (542 words)

	Navy News - The Falklands Conflict - 12th June 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Then turned their attention to the next hilltop on the road to Port Stanley, Mount Tumbledown, which had been subjected to bombardment from HMS Yarmouth.
		The first lines of the Mount Longdon defence were taken but the Paras then encountered strong resistance.
		45 Cdo began to move forward on Two Sisters after the battle on Mount Longdon had begun, but approached in silence and were not detected until they were within 500 yards of the nearest peak.
	www.navynews.co.uk /falklands/stories/8202061201.asp (292 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - 3 Para (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Taking place two weeks after Goose Green this is the story of 3 Para and the often-neglected struggle for Mount Longdon, a battle which tested the discipline, comradeship and professionalism of the paras to the limit.
		Now, two weeks later, as they look up at the long, frost shattered spines of rock which stab the air from the summit of Mount Longdon on the outer ring of the Stanley defences, the 'toms' of 3 Para know it is their turn.
		It was a battle which tested the discipline, comradeship and professionalism of the paras to the limit; it was a battle which witnessed another posthumous VC; it turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the entire Falklands Campaign.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=1844151158 (316 words)

	Amazon.de: Green-eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon: English Books: Christian Jennings,Adrian Weale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		On 11th and 12th June the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment achieved its objective at Mount Longdon but in the fourteen years since the battle allegations have emerged of incompetence, murder and the mutilation of corpses by British soldiers.
		The bloodiest battle fought by the British Army since the Korean War occurred in the Falkland Islands in June 1982.
		Das Gefecht um Mount Longdon wÃ¤hrend des Falklandkrieges bildet das zentrale Thema.
	www.amazon.de /Green-eyed-Boys-Battle-Mount-Longdon/dp/000638448X (456 words)

	Mount Harriet &Two Sisters
		As the battle for Mount Longdon raged, 45 Commando, under Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Whitehead, in the centre, moved off towards their start-lines for the attack on Two Sisters Mountain.
		The battle raged on and the 3rd Artillery Group and Major Oscar Jaimet's heavy mortars were brought into play, giving the 4th Regiment's 'C' Company effective support.
		To the south, Mount Harriet proved to be more formidable, being surrounded to the west and south by minefields.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Falklands/David/Mount-Harriet.htm (3439 words)

	Games Depot
		On the night of June 11/12 1982, Mount Longdon was assaulted by the 3 Para, supported by artillery and naval fire.
		Once Mount Longdon is secured, A and C Coys will, if possible, move on to Wireless Ridge.
		Mount Longdon turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the campaign for the British side with 17 Paras being killed in the fighting and at least 35 being injured.
	www.wargamer.com /gamesdepot/details.asp?sid=4043 (344 words)

	Falklands War, 1982
		3 Para's Approach to and Battle for Mount Longdon, by Gordon Smith.
		42 Commando's approach to and Battle for Mount Harriet, by Gordon Smith.
		Battles of the Falklands Islands War, 1982, by Gordon Smith (Naval History.Net).
	www.regiments.org /wars/20thcent/82falkis.htm (348 words)

	Obituaries - WW2inColor Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The western end of the ridge that forms the north side of the valley in which Port Stanley lies is dominated by Mount Longdon; and, from this position, the Argentine defenders were able to provide supporting fire on to important strategic features nearby.
		At a critical point in the battle, when 4 Platoon was pinned down, Sergeant Ian McKay led a charge across open ground to clear a number of bunkers and silence an elevated medium machine gun.
		By 3am B Company was reduced to less than half its strength and was pulled back to the western end of Mount Longdon, allowing A Company to move through them.
	www.ww2incolor.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3873 (854 words)

	Battle of Goose Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Goose Green (May 27–28, 1982) was an engagement of the Falklands War between British and Argentinian forces.
		Goose Green had little strategic value to the overall aim of recapturing the capital Stanley but, as it was a significant Argentinian position and close to the beachhead at San Carlos, it could not be ignored.
		Eighteen Argentinians were dead and thirty-nine wounded, a testament to the bravery of the Argentinians in that battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green (1505 words)

	3 Para: Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Battle - Post-war Period: 1945-Present < 20th Century < Australasia & Pacific
		Reading some of the comments from the contributors, one can only imagine the horror of war and the terrible aftermath of what must have been a truly bloody battle.
		I believe this will soon become one of the 'Must have' books covering the Falklands campaign and Mount Longdon in particular.
		Green-eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon
	www.shoooop.co.uk /1844151158 (183 words)

	The Battle for the Falklands
		Their are large sections of the book devoted to their battles at Goose Green and Wireless Ridge but it would be shameful to not mention the contributions of the Royal Marines whose arctic and mountain training proved invaluable in battle against Argentine conscripts poorly suited for such conditions.
		The battle might have been a disaster had it not been for the inspired performance of 2 Para.
		The Battle For the Falklands by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins is one of the best early books to come out of the war.
	www.paratrooper.net /commo/Topic166855-82-1.aspx (971 words)

	Bayonets obsolete, or just another myth? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Mount Longdon and its surroundings are finally taken after hand-to- hand and bayonet fighting with the Argentine troops position by position.
		Even mounting them on an indoor range would be a good training aid.
		Or you have one guy constantly bombarded by requests to use his knife to open ammunition cases, resulting in a lot of milling about and noise when if every Soldier had the M9 Wire-Cutter bayonet by his side that he is supposed to have, he could do the task in place.
	www.combatreform.com /bayonets.htm (5182 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Green-eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon: Books: Christian Jennings,Adrian Weale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Green-eyed boys is a highly readable detailed account of the Parachute regiments assault on Mount Longdon, during the Falklands conflict.
		The authors approach the whole conflict from a fairly neutral viewpoint and quickly dispel many of the rumours and myths that have grown up since the conflict, the argentinian defenders of both goose green and mount longdon, although mostly poorly trained and motivated conscripts provided good accounts of themselves, contrary to popular belief.
		The rumours of war crimes and excecutions carried out by the so called green eyed boys from the paras, is the central core of the book, and the facts are laid out plainly with many eyewitness accounts, and the stories are most definately laid to rest here.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/000638448X (1200 words)

	Letter to the English Soldier who I killed in the Battle of Monte Longdon
		The following letter was written by an Argentine officer who participated in the battle of Mount Longdon, Falkland Islands, during the 1982 war between England and Argentina.
		He wrote it on the twentieth anniversary of the battle on the advice of his psychologist.
		At the time he was a young lieutenant, and retired as a Lt. Colonel.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /17/soldado.htm (759 words)

	Falkland Islands Info Portal - History Articles
		Jorge Altieri and Jose Rosskio were both nineteen years old when they fought with the 7th Mechanized Regiment in the 1982 battle on Mount Longdon.
		Mr Altieri was wounded in the battle, losing his left eye.
		To commemorate this, they carried a plaque which lists the names of the thirty-six men on to Mount Longdon.
	www.falklands.info /history/hist82article2.html (702 words)

	History of the Falklands War
		History in military art prints of the Falklands War, including the battles of Mount Longdon and Tumbledown, the San Carlos landings, SAS raid on Pebble Island, HMS Hermes, HMS Invincible, HMS Broadsword and the sinking of the Belgrano by HMS Conqueror by leading military artists.
		A Battalion of 12th regiment Argentinean Infantry were expected to be engaged by the patrol but found the Argentineans had been airlifted the previous night to reinforce the garrison at Goose Green for the subsequent 2 Para attack.
		HMS Broadsword and the aircraft carrier Hermes battle their way through the storm on their way to the Battle for the Falklands.
	www.war-art.com /falklands_war.htm (2382 words)

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