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He actually played a large role in persuading the Argentines of the lack of priority held by Britain towards the islands. After a residence of some time in Paris, he travelled for two years on the continent, in medical charge of an invalid gentleman. I think this is the first insider's account of the decisions and tensions arising in what must have been Great Britain's last colonial war. We lost a lot of people, a lot of people were wounded and many were disabled, that was a great tragedy for them, but they should feel proud and the Falkland Islands should feel proud that they'd all brought about this result. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.

In 1783 he went out as surgeon on board an East Indiaman, and was absent from England about three years. If you wish to license an image, select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Use this image button, or contact our Rights and Images service.

He was chairman of Hillsdown Holdings, a multi-national food company, the Canadian firm Maple Leaf Foods, deputy chairman of Royal Insurance. I came back [to London] that evening - this was on the Wednesday before the invasion on the Friday and the officials came over to the Ministry of Defence to give me a briefing and to my horror they showed me some intercepted signals.

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Friends and with the chiefs of staff day by day to take the most difficult decisions on the rules of engagement.

Nott served in the early 1970s government of Prime Minister Ted Heath as a junior Treasury minister. Most of the negotiated terms that we were offered by every conceivable country, led by the Americans, would have been seen as a surrender in this country. Nott offered his resignation to Thatcher following the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands in March 1982. Margaret Thatcher's defence secretary Sir John Nott suspends Tory membership because of 'poisonous' EU campaign".