tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-603110492544010470.post1606208570794328276..comments2024-03-03T01:12:19.397-08:00Comments on European Disunion: Falklands Are a 'Colony?' Tell that to the FalklandersGallowglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099932099388694283noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-603110492544010470.post-30250860487782466412012-06-03T21:42:06.030-07:002012-06-03T21:42:06.030-07:00Wrong and untrue. The british were not the first i...Wrong and untrue. The british were not the first in discover the islands. They were not the first to claim them. They were not the first to populate them and certainly they were not the first in stablish a permanent population.<br />The first to discover the islands was Magellan. The first incontrovertible sighting was by Holland's Sebald de Weerdt in 1600. The first to claim the islands was Boungaville for the french king in 1764 stablishing the first colony Fort St. Louis. The french recognized spanish sovereignty and ceded the fort and the colony to Spain in 1767.<br />The british left in 1774 and from then until 1833 several spanish and argentine administration governed the islands alone and without protest from the british.<br />In 1833 the british returned, expelling the argentines and ocupying the islands by force, controling its population and economy through the falklands islands company and denying argentine citizens to stablish and reside in Malvinas.Luis Baronehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02793970747952577474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-603110492544010470.post-6289274888752033362012-03-13T06:48:22.422-07:002012-03-13T06:48:22.422-07:00Hear, hear.
I believe the colony on the Falkland...Hear, hear. <br /><br />I believe the colony on the Falkland Islands was established some years before Argentina was even recognised as a country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com