The final numbers for this battle were 17 2-Para soldiers and roughly 200 Argentine soldiers killed. This left 1,400 Argentine troops to surrender.

May 29th, 1982

Warships and Harriers continue to bombard Argentine positions.

May 30th, 1982

Shelling continues as British troops advance. The British 45 Commando secures Douglas settlement; 3-Para recaptures Teal Inlet.

May 31st, 1982

Mount Kent is taken by British troops. The Falklands' capital of Port Stanley is surrounded.

June 1st to June 4th, 1982

Britain repeats its cease-fire terms and vetoes Panamanian-Spanish cease-fire resolution at the UN Security Council.

June 6th, 1982

Versailles summit supports British position on Falklands.

June 8th, 1982

An Argentine air attack on the British landing craft Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram at Port Pleasant south of Bluff Cove leave 50 British dead.

June 12th, 1982

British 3-Para mounts an assault on Mount Longdon. The battle on this heavily defended position, which was supposed to last until dawn, was to prove much tougher and longer than expected. Mount Longdon and its surroundings are finally taken after vicious hand to hand/bayonet fighting with the Argentine troops forces the British to remove them position by position.

British casualties for this fight are high at 23 men, one of which, Sergeant Ian John McKay of 3-Para, was later awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. There were 47 more British wounded during the action.

The Argentine force suffered over 50 dead and many more injured. Six more British troops would die shortly afterwards.

British 45 Commando takes Two Sisters and 42 Commando takes Mount Harriet with support by the guns of 29th Commando regiment and naval gunfire from a number of Royal Navy frigates. 2nd Scots Guards seize Mount Tumbledown in another bloody battle. Nine British and roughly 40 Argentine troops die. Another 34 Argentine soldier’s surrender and are taken prisoner. 32 British are wounded.

The cruiser HMS Glamorgan is hit by an Exocet missile as it was bombarding Argentine positions - 13 dead

June 14th, 1982

The conflict is effectively ended when the large garrison in Port Stanley is defeated. Argentine commander Mario Menendez agrees to "an un-negotiated cease fire” …with no other condition than the deletion of the word “unconditional" from the surrender document.

Some 9,800 Argentine troops are taken prisoner.

June 20, 1982

Britain formally declares an end to hostilities.

This conflict lasted 72 days, claimed nearly 1,000 lives (236 British and 655 Argentine).

In monetary terms the conflict is estimated to have cost around $2 billion dollars.

Politically the war went some way towards helping re-elect Margaret Thatcher and did bring down Leopoldo Galtieri.