500 Brits vs 1000 Argentines - Battle of Goose Green 1982

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Buy a Falklands War Poster: https://historigraph.store 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/battleforfalklan00hast_0/page/n9/mode/2up 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9bWwF7OqLg Arthur Gavshon, The sinking of the belgrano https://archive.org/details/sinkingofbelgran0000gavs/page/n7/mode/2up Gordon Smith, Battle Atlas of the Falklands War 1982 by Land, Sea and Air http://www.naval-history.net/NAVAL1982FALKLANDS.htm Hansard- https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1982/apr/03/falkland-islands Recording of Thatcher's statement to the commons is from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvbhVpyOeMo Credits: Artwork by: https://twitter.com/ChrisbyFlanker Written, Animated, Directed and Produced by Josh Bassett ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/historigraph ► Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIjLJ6XfEj5rtU2dtZkV9Q ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/historigraph ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/historigraph/ ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historigraph ►Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historigraph Music Credits: "Rynos Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Crypto" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Stay the Course" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Other music and SFX from Epidemic Sound