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Hi, then. Welcome to Dan Snow's History. It's another four-clin's anniversary episode for you today.

40 years ago, one of the biggest battles the British Army had fought since the Second World War took place. In the four-clin

Islands, the first major land confrontation of the campaign to retake the islands. The plan was a British unit. Two-par-

Second Battalion, the parachute regiment, would march south from where the landings had taken place at San Carlos water,

and they would strike at the Argentinian garrison at the settlement of Goose Green. This would provide a morale-boosting

first win for British forces, and it would secure the southern flank of the advance as the rest of the army headed east to liberate

the main centre of population, Port Stanley, on the eastern side of the island. One of the senior officers of two-par-

was Major Philip Neem. You know, there's two ways to take life when your dad was awarded a victory across

and won Olympic gold medal, the only person in history to achieve that double. There's two things you can do. One is give up and drink

general day, and the other is get busy becoming a legend in your own right. Phil chose the latter. Before he ever got to

Falknottoyce, the active service in Doha in Northern Ireland, he'd taken part in mountaineering

expeditions to the Himalayas. He was a standout company commander. As you'll hear in this podcast, Phil tells me about that

advance to contact the fight the Argentinians at Goose Green. He tells me about the battle about the famous death of Colonel H. Jones,

awarded a victory across Favalla and about the ruse, the trick by which they got the Argentinian garrison to surrender to a much smaller and

exhausted unit of British soldiers. Goose Green was a British success, but it was hard one. There was fierce fighting and dozens of casualties. But it did start to give the British that all

importance sense of momentum that they could and would overcome Argentinian units when they found them in entrenched positions across

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