Queen Elizabeth's Role In The Falklands War

During the queens’ forth decade during her reign she saw two very big conflicts involving UK service men and women. She is very supportive of the military considering almost all of the men in her family have been in involved within the military in some way, shape or form. She often shares the anxiety that many other mothers feel when their children are serving in the conflict. Troops travelled to South America in April of 1982 to help Falkland. The Falkland war (Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis) was a ten week was between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British over sea territories in the South Atlantic: Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. On Friday, April 2nd 1982, Argentina invaded all of the British and tired to establish and claim them. They were clearly unsuccessful considering all of Great Britain is still to this day one of the greatest countries on this earth. On April 5th Queen Elizabeth helped with the decision to send navel force to fight against Argentines’ Navy and Air Force. The battle, which was never considered a war, lasted 74 days, all because Argentina surrendered on June 14th, 1982. 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel,
In 1997, she had lost of Princess Diana of Wales. Princess Diana was killed in an automobile accident in London. This caused a wide spread of mourn all throughout the world, as stated previously. On September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers in New York City, New York, United States of America, were struck by two high-jacked airplanes. Queen Elizabeth, on September 14th, 2001, led a national mourning at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, England. The terrorist attack caused nearly three thousand deaths, that day. Then, in 2002, Princess Margaret, her sister, died at the age of 71 on February 9th, 2002, of a stroke, then a few weeks later on March 30th, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, died at the age of