Word: royals
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...what British Defense Minister John Nott described as a "brilliant surprise attack," Royal Marine commandos and paratroopers overran Argentine positions just before daybreak, coming to within five miles of Port Stanley. Many of the young Argentine defenders were asleep in their foxholes as the British struck. The first things they saw, said Nott, "were the blackened faces of the British troops in the trenches with them...
...Demolished on that disastrous Tuesday were two landing ships, the Sir Galahad and the Sir Tristram, carrying members of the Fifth Infantry Brigade who were establishing a second British beachhead only 17 miles from Port Stanley. That brought to seven the total of major British ships lost since a Royal Navy task force reached the wintry South Atlantic archipelago on April 29. Defense Secretary Nott somberly refused to disclose to the House of Commons the number of casualties on the ground that the information "could be of assistance to the enemy." Finally, British officials privately disclosed that...
...change of tempo in the the war following stood in sharp contrast to the speed of British successes following the landing of 5,000 Royal Marine commandos and Parachute Regiment troops near Port San Carlos. Slogging across the boggy ground, they had captured 1,600 Argentine troops near the settlement of Goose Green (see map). Then, in a combination of rapid marches and bold helicopter assaults, they secured the commanding height of Mount Kent, overlooking Port Stanley. Encountering almost no Argentine resistance, they set up forward observation posts on hills known as the Two Sisters, only six miles from...
With the high ground under their control, the British immediately began to rain artillery fire down on the 7,500 Argentine troops, which were entrenched in a defensive horseshoe around Port Stanley. Harrier vertical-takeoff jets pounded the area with 600-lb. cluster bombs, while 4.5-in. guns on Royal Navy frigates and destroyers added their drumbeat of fire. As the week began, the dense, rain-filled clouds that shrouded Port Stanley seemed to be the only barrier to a full-scale attack. But Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward and Major General John Jeremy Moore, the two commanders to whom...
...labyrinth in which crowds still wander like students during freshman week, seeking the proper doors and directions. The center contains Barbican Hall, home of the London Symphony Orchestra, three cinemas, an art gallery, two restaurants and the Barbican Theater, which last week became the new London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, replacing the venerable Aldwych Theater. With a thrust stage, and no seat farther than 65 ft. from the stage, the theater's novelty may be that it has no aisles: playgoers enter their rows from outside the orchestra according to lighted alphabetical letters...