Qualla: Battle of Mount Longdon https://qualla.com/battle-of-mount-longdon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Mount Longdon https://qualla.com/battle-of-mount-longdon Battle of Mount Longdon: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-mount-longdon/ The British paratroopers expected the conscripts to break and run. They did not. On the night of 11 June 1982, 3 Para crept toward the rocky spine of Mount Longdon hoping to surprise the defenders and rush their trenches before dawn. Instead a soldier stepped on a mine, the night erupted, and the battle became the bloodiest the British fought in the entire war, ten hours of grenades and bayonets and machine guns among the boulders, fought by teenagers on both sides who would be remembered for refusing to give the mountain up.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/w/y/f/battle-of-mount-longdon-wp/4wyf-battle-of-mount-longdon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Mount Longdon: The Mine in the Dark https://qualla.com/battle-of-mount-longdon/ The plan depended on silence, and the rock betrayed it. As B Company approached the western peak, codenamed 'Fly Half', Corporal Brian Milne stepped on an anti-personnel mine. The blast tore the silence open. The defenders, a platoon of the Argentine 7th Infantry Regiment under S...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/w/y/f/battle-of-mount-longdon-wp/4wyf-battle-of-mount-longdon-among-the-rocks.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Mount Longdon: Sergeant McKay's Charge https://qualla.com/battle-of-mount-longdon/ When 4 Platoon was pinned down by a machine gun it could not silence, its officer was wounded and command fell to Sergeant Ian McKay. Recognising that to stay still was to die, he gathered a handful of men, among them a seventeen-year-old, Jason Burt, and charged the position. Th...

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