I have always been interested in finding the history relating to the battle of the Falklands, back in 1982. I came up with the idea of tracing back the history of this battle, and put it onto my PC desktop as moving wall paper. I could then document all my findings with regards to the Falklands conflict, and have them as a film on my desktop, so when I am out of my office other people can see the history for themselves.

I decided to document this from the very beginning, I found that there had been a long running dispute between Britain and Argentina, over which country by rights owned the Falkland Islands, and this had been going on since Argentine settlement on the land in 1826.

So on March 19th 1982 when scrap metal workers, together with the military, landed on South Georgia Island, hoisting an Argentinean flag it set some feathers flapping.

This was closely followed by the Argentine Military invading the islands on March 26 1982. On March the 28th reports were already coming in that five Argentine warships had been sighted close to South Georgia. On March the 30th the British Foreign secretary declared that a diplomatic solution was being pursued. Although Britain was hoping for avoidance of force, unfortunately on April 2nd 1982, the Argentine Navy and thousands for soldiers arrive on the Falklands forcing The Royal Marines to surrendering.

On April the 3rd the Argentine troops seize the Falklands. After this the British Government orders a 200 mile exclusion zone surrounding the islands on 26 April 1982.

This is followed by the British task force moving into the waters off the shore of the Falkland Islands.

By now my dreamscene videos were looking really exciting on my desktop, I couldn’t believe how good the animated backgrounds were on the pictures that I had decided to place on my computer as wallpaper. I never knew wallpaper could be so entertaining.

I carried on with my documentation of the Falklands. On 1st of May British planes attack the Port Stanley Air field and three Argentine aircraft are shot from the sky.

On May 8th the islands are again bombarded by both sea and air and two sea harriers since the Argentine trawler.

The battle goes on for weeks with Peru trying to come forward with some sort of peace offering, but nothing works and Argentina won’t back down. So the battle commences and Britain continues to advance.

Finally on June the 14th 1982, the Argentine garrison are defeated at Port Stanley. The commander signs a surrender document and 9800 troops put down their weapons.

On June 20th Britain declares formally that the conflict is at an end.