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| Battle of Mount Tumbledown | |||||||||
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| Part of the Falklands War | |||||||||
 Mount Tumbledown, Two Sisters, and Wireless Ridge, as seen from Stanley Harbour. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| United Kingdom | Argentina | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Michael Scott John Kiszely Iain Dalzel-Job | Carlos Robacio | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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5th Naval Infantry Battalion 1st Marine Field Artillery Battalion 1st Marine Anti-Aircraft Regiment 4th Infantry Regiment 12th Infantry Regiment | |||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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641 soldiers 2 Scorpion light tanks 2 Scimitar light tanks 2 frigates |
700 marines[1] 200 soldiers[1] 3 Tigercat SAMs | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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10 killed[2] 9 Guardsmen and 1 RE Sapper[3] c60[4] wounded - 43 Guardsmen, 8 Gurkhas,[5] 6 Royal Marines[6] and 3 tank crewmen |
30 captured | ||||||||
Mount Tumbledown, Mount William, and Sapper Hill are located to the west of Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands. Due to their proximity to the capital, these positions held strategic importance during the 1982 Falklands War. On the night of 13–14 June, British forces launched an offensive against Mount Tumbledown and the surrounding high ground. The operation was successful, forcing the retreat of the Argentine force. This engagement, one of several night battles during the British advance toward Stanley, allowed British troops to secure a dominant position over the town, leading to the fall of Stanley and the surrender of Argentine forces on the islands.
British forces were the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, 42 Commandos Mortars and four light tanks of the Blues and Royals. The 7th Gurkha Rifles were in reserve with the task of capturing Mount William, allowing the Welsh Guards through to take Sapper Hill. The attack was supported by gunfire from HMS Active.
The Argentinian forces defending the mountains around Port Stanley were Commander Carlos Hugo Robacio's 5th Marine Infantry Battalion (BIM 5), a reinforced, cold-weather-trained and equipped Marine battalion. Prior to the British landings, the Argentine Marines battalion had been brought up to brigade strength by a company of the Amphibious Engineers Company, a heavy machine-gun company of the Headquarters Battalion, a battery of the 1st Marine Field Artillery Battalion, three Tigercat SAM, Six Hispano-Suiz, HS-831 30mm AA batteries of the 1st Marine Anti-Aircraft Regiment, a 2nd and 3rd Marine Infantry Battalion platoon, military police and a canine platoon.[7]
- ^ a b Robacio: homenaje a 85 años del nacimiento de un Comandante ejemplar
- ^ a b Freedman, Lawrence (2005). The Official History of the Falklands Campaign: War and diplomacy. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-7146-5207-8.
- ^ Airborne Engineers Association
- ^ a b Falklands hero hails Magaret Thatcher’s leadership
- ^ Gurkhas and the Falklands War
- ^ Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge, & Sapper Hill
- ^ Argentine Ground Forces in the Falklands War of 1982, Orders of Battle & TO&E - By R Mark Davies