Chapter II b
admin 2017-03-26T15:38:33+00:00Chapter II
The first settlements on the islands. The 1771 Agreement and British abandonment. Spanish withdrawal after the beginning of Argentine process of independence
Introduction
This chapter analyses the period of 1764-1811 and the first European settlements on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in the 18th century; it also deals with the subsequent disputes among [...]
Chapter I b
admin 2017-03-29T19:30:47+00:00Papal bulls and discovery. British recognition of Spanish sovereignty
This first section tackles Pascoe and Pepper’s analysis of papal bulls, the Tordesillas Treaty and the discovery of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.1. These are in reality only secondary issues, because the essence of the Spanish, and consequently Argentine, claim is based on other [...]
Introduction b
admin 2017-03-26T15:29:13+00:00Introduction
In 2008, Graham Pascoe and Peter Pepper, two British authors who are not academics, published both in English and in Spanish a pamphlet entitled “Getting it Right: the Real History of the Falklands/Malvinas”. Since then, a variety of versions of this pamphlet have been published, some abridged, and some not; the [...]