The Falkland Islands (Malvinas, in Spanish) are a British colony in the South Atlantic Ocean, claimed by Argentina.<\/p>\n
The Falkland Islands were included in the territories that corresponded to Spain in the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494. The islands were accidentally discovered by the Spanish navigator Alonso de Camargo in 1540<\/strong>, but the first to establish a permanent settlement there was the French explorer and military man Louis Antoine de Bougainville in 1763. France sold the islands to Spain in 1766<\/strong>, and the Spanish occupation began the following year.<\/p>\n British attempts to seize the islands led to the Battle of the Falklands in 1770, in which the Spanish expelled the British<\/a>. After Spain abandoned them in 1811, Argentina took possession of the islands in 1820, but the British seized them in 1833.<\/strong> This remote archipelago continued to be claimed by Argentina, a claim that led to an armed conflict in April 1982, when Argentina invaded the Falklands, leading to a war<\/a> that ended in June of that year with a British victory.<\/p>\n
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