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General Mario Menendez surrenders to Major General Jeremy Moore at 9pm FI time.
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9,800 Argentine troops put down their arms.
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British officers are flown by helicopter to the outlying settlements to accept the surrender of local Argentine commanders.
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Stanley's historic Globe Store is destroyed by an Argentine arsonist.
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Canberra embarks 1,200 Argentine POWs at San Carlos.
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Canberra embarks a further 1,850 Argentine POWs in Port William outside Stanley.
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Peter Blaker, Defence Minister of State, announces that the official count of British military and civilian war dead is 255, with approximately 300 wounded.
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27757 |
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Galtieri resigns.
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Canberra sails from Port William with 3,046 Argentine POWs aboard once Argentina guarantees her safe passage.
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Canberra offloads the POWs at Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
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