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Battleground

13. The Battle of Wireless Ridge

Battleground

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In the final phase of the battle for Port Stanley, the momentum of the initial assault continues as British forces assault Wireless Ridge and the Battle of Mount Tumbledown begins. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.6

Hello and welcome to Battleground the Falklands. I'm Saul David and with Patrick Bishop I'll be talking about the final phase of the battle for Port Stanley.

1:17.5

We ended last time at the epic fight on the three mountains surrounding the capital,

1:22.1

Longdon, two sisters and Harriet, which ended in victory for three para and the Marines of 45 and 42

1:28.6

commandos, all from three commando brigade. They're now exhausted and all have suffered casualties,

1:35.3

heavy ones in the case of the parrers. The original idea had been that once they had taken their

1:40.1

objectives, they would exploit forward to the next features. But the battles have taken

1:44.4

longer than expected, and the night had not been long enough for them to advance further.

1:49.5

While they're drawing breath, it's time for fire brigade advancing along the southern flank

1:53.8

to get into the battle, pushing across the low open ground and onto the next objective, Mount Tumbledown.

2:01.4

The charge was led by the Scots. They had arrived by a ship of Bluff Cove unscathed,

2:06.8

unlike the poor Welsh guards who were caught in the Sir Galahad Air attack.

2:10.9

But they were still drying out and sorting themselves out. Communications with brigade headquarters

2:15.6

were, as usual, shambolic.

2:18.4

Now, according to the plan they'd been handled, they were supposed to advance on Tumbledown

2:22.4

on the night of 12th of June.

2:25.3

That's immediately after the three brigade battles.

2:29.0

It was, of course, vital to keep momentum going, but it was still a big ask.

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