500 Brits vs 1000 Argentines - Battle of Goose Green 1982

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During the Falklands War, a British parachute battalion of around 500 men was ordered to assault over open ground an Argentine position defended by more than twice that number. In this video, we’re going to reconstruct the battle of Goose Green in unprecedented detail to tell the story of the Falkland War’s biggest, longest, and perhaps most remarkable land battle.

Sources:
Sources for the Falklands War Series (so far):

Max Hastings & Simon Jenkins, Battle for the Falklands
https://archive.org/details/battlefor...
Martin Middlebrook, Operation Corporate
Martin Middlebrook, Battle for the Malvinas
Mike Norman, The Falklands War There and Back Again: The Story of Naval Party 8901
Kenneth Privratsky, Logistics in the Falklands War
Sandy Woodward, One Hundred Days
Paul Brown, Abandon Ship
Julian Thompson, No Picnic
John Shields, Air Power in the Falklands Conflict
Edward Hampshire, The Falklands Naval Campaign 1982
Hugh McManners, Forgotten Voices of the Falklands
Cedric Delves, Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War
Rowland White, Vulcan 607
Vernon Bogdanor, The Falklands War 1982 lecture    • The Falklands War, 1982 - Professor Vernon...  
Arthur Gavshon, The sinking of the belgrano https://archive.org/details/sinkingof...
Gordon Smith, Battle Atlas of the Falklands War 1982 by Land, Sea and Air
http://www.naval-history.net/NAVAL198...
Hansard- https://api.parliament.uk/historic-ha...
Recording of Thatcher's statement to the commons is from    • Falklands Invasion  

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