@KingEthelreds ^Why can’t you read the posts systematically?
Why do you write “God,” as if it were a sentence and “Bless you” as if it were another sentence?
(^Not difficult.)
@KingEthelreds@PinedoFederico 10/10 The continuity was of labour. Sovereignty was attacked. ^A picture of gauchos at work in 1852 is no more evidence of British title than a picture of Irish labourers in 1852 is evidence of the Union's legitimacy, I am told, by *Claude Anthropic*~
@KingEthelreds@PinedoFederico 4/10 1790: by the Nootka Convention, Britain agreed not to settle coasts and adjacent islands already occupied by Spain.
1829: Wellington, heading the British government, wrote to Murray that it was not clear Britain had EVER possessed sovereignty of the islands.
@KingEthelreds@PinedoFederico 9/10 The later gauchos were hired labour, recruited from Uruguay in the 1840s under Samuel Lafone's cattle venture, which became the Falkland Islands Company. They worked under British rule, with no political standing and no Argentine authorities of their own.
@KingEthelreds@PinedoFederico 3/10 Britain knew its position was weak. In 1766, George Lennox in Paris warned Shelburne, after meeting Choiseul, to stay away from the Malouines under Art. VIII of the Treaty of Utrecht.
@KingEthelreds@PinedoFederico 2/10 Britain left in 1774. It abandoned Port Egmont, the only place it ever occupied, leaving just a plaque. Spain kept continuous administration at Puerto Soledad until 1811.
Inglaterra es el pasado. Argentina es el futuro. Es saludable que los Estados Unidos revisen su postura sobre Malvinas. Sería extraño que no lo hicieran. No se puede esperar menos de un aliado estratégico. Malvinas es una causa sagrada para los argentinos.