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In the early hours of the 2nd of April 1982, prior to the Argentine landings at Stanley, Major Norman of the Royal Marines proposed to Governor Rex Hunt that rather than make a stand in Stanley that the marines withdraw from the town and ‘go bush’. The idea being that the seat of government in the islands was in fact the Governor himself, as long as he remained free and at large he still exercised British Sovereignty over the islands.
Given that the Falklands are not a hospitable terrain or climate in anyone’s terms what chance did the marines and more importantly the 56 year old governor really have?
Would a governor on the run have enhanced the British position or would the Argentineans have been able to make propaganda mileage out of a colonial governor and the Royal Marines running away?
Given that the Falklands are not a hospitable terrain or climate in anyone’s terms what chance did the marines and more importantly the 56 year old governor really have?
Would a governor on the run have enhanced the British position or would the Argentineans have been able to make propaganda mileage out of a colonial governor and the Royal Marines running away?