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    The Battle of Mount Tumbledown was an engagement during the Falklands War. The engagement was an attack by the British Army and the Royal Marines on the...
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    5th Marine Battalion (Argentina) (category Naval units and formations of Argentina)
    rendered BIM-5 a tough unit that fought well in defense during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown. Different Argentine authorities have repeatedly decorated BIM-5's...
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  • Tumbledown is a 1988 BBC Television drama film set during the Falklands War. Directed by Richard Eyre, it stars Colin Firth, Paul Rhys, and David Calder...
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  • Tumbledown is a 1988 British television play. Tumbledown can also refer to: the Battle of Mount Tumbledown in the Falklands War in 1982 Tumbledown Mountain...
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  • Robert Lawrence (British Army officer) (category Recipients of the Military Cross)
    the Battle of Mount Tumbledown. Lawrence, John; Lawrence, Robert (1988). When the Fighting Is Over: A Personal Story of the Battle for Tumbledown Mountain...
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    The Battle of Mount Harriet was an engagement of the Falklands War, which took place on the night of 11/12 June 1982 between British and Argentine forces...
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    honours for their role in the Falklands War; "Tumbledown Mountain" specifically for the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, and "Falkland Islands 1982" for the overall...
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    lives, and the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards captured Mount Tumbledown at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, which cost 10 British and 30 Argentine lives. A simultaneous...
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    Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) (category Armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom)
    Regiment during the Battle of Wireless Ridge and for 2nd Battalion Scots Guards during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown. By the time of the Gulf War, the...
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    East Falkland (category Islands of the Falkland Islands)
    Harriet Battle of Two Sisters Battle of Mount Longdon Battle of Mount Tumbledown Battle of Wireless Ridge Following the Falklands War, Britain increased its...
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    Colin Firth (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
    Lawrence MC in the 1988 BBC dramatisation Tumbledown. Lawrence was severely injured at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown during the Falklands War, and the film...
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    Sapper Hill (category Mountains and hills of East Falkland)
    bombardment. As part of the British plan for the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, the 1st Battalion the 7th Gurkha Rifles (1/7 GR) was given the task of capturing the...
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  • through; if they said the latter, they were shot on the spot. At the Battle of Mount Tumbledown in the 1982 Falklands War, the Scots Guards replaced the established...
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  • Tony Pollard (archaeologist) (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
    archaeology of the Falklands War on the Falklands Islands, incorporating the perspectives of two British veterans of the Battle of Mount Tumbledown. Pollard...
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  • Tasmania, Australia Mount William, Tasmania, a locality in Australia Mount William, a sub-hill in the Battle of Mount Tumbledown of the Falklands War This...
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    HMS Yarmouth (F101) (category Ships of the Fishery Protection Squadron of the United Kingdom)
    13–14 June, she and Active shelled Argentine positions during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown. During the war, she fired over 1,000 shells from her main guns...
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  • first line of hills: Two Sisters, Mount Longdon and Mount Harriet, were taken. Three other hills were then slated to be captured: Mount Tumbledown by the...
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    Mount Tumbledown Battle of Pavón Battle of Pequereque Battle of Riachuelo Battle of Salta Battle of San Carlos (1982) Battle of San Lorenzo Battle of San...
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    the objective of capturing Sapper Hill in the final stages of the Battle of Mount Tumbledown. Following a firefight at their helicopter landing zone, the...
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    Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This article lists all the battles that...
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    side of Mount Tumbledown. During the course of the battle in the early hours of 14 June 1982, men of the 2nd Battalion "wearing berets instead of helmets"...
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  • Tim Spicer (category Date of birth missing (living people))
    from guard duty at the Tower of London and sent to the Falklands War, where he saw action at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown on 13 June.[citation needed]...
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    National Geospace Intelligence Agency | "Mount Longdon" This is the distance to the mountain Tumbledown south of Mount Longdon. Notes "ACME mapper". ACME mapper...
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  • Dirty War. Falklands War. 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands. Invasion of South Georgia. Battle of Mount Tumbledown. Gulf War. United Nations peacekeeping...
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    HMS Active (F171) (category Cold War frigates of the United Kingdom)
    missions at night. On the night of 13/14 June, Active shelled on Argentine positions during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown. HMS Active took part in five...
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  • Mick Flynn (category British Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021))
    Michael John Flynn, CGC, MC (born 1960) is one of the British Army's most decorated members in recent years. Flynn was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1960...
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    9 Parachute Squadron RE (category Airborne units and formations of the United Kingdom)
    (1995). Strong as the Rock of Gibraltar. Gibraltar: Exchange Publications. OCLC 48491998. Joslen, H. F. (2003). Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial...
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    The Battle of Mount Longdon was fought between the British 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment and elements of the Argentine 7th Infantry Regiment on 11–12...
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  • advance on the western side of Mount Tumbledown. During the course of the battle in the early hours of the 14th, men of the battalion launched a bayonet...
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  • Michael Scott (British Army officer) (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    commanded the victorious attack of the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards and supporting units at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown against positions held by the...
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