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During the Falklands War, Haig sought to broker peace between the United Kingdom and Argentina. He resigned from Reagan's cabinet in July 1982. He resigned from Reagan's cabinet in July 1982. He unsuccessfully sought the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries .
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British ... Alexander Haig, ...
Haig briefly (8–30 April) headed a "shuttle diplomacy" mission between London and Buenos Aires. According to a BBC documentary titled "The Falklands War and the White House", [28] Caspar Weinberger's Department of Defense began a number of non-public actions to support and supply the British military while Haig's shuttle diplomacy was still ...
In 1493, Pope Alexander VI issued a Papal bull, Inter caetera, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal. The following year, the Treaty of Tordesillas between those countries agreed that the dividing line between the two should be 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. [2] The Falklands lie on the western (Spanish) side of this line.
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Terence Lewin, Chief of the Defence Staff from 1979 to 1982; David Evans, Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff from 1981 to 1983; Henry Leach, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 1979 to 1982
Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin asked defence minister Al Carns why documents about the 1982 attack on the Sir Galahad were being withheld.
Bill McDowell and Norman McDade, both veterans of the Falklands war, met to mark the conflict’s 40th anniversary.