With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict was effectively over and at 2100 hours on the 14th June 1982 the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, General Mario Menendez, surrendered to Major General Jeremy Moore.
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Boris Johnson led tributes to the incredible daring and bravery shown by British Army servicemen and women on the Falklands Islands. The 74-day war ended at 9pm local time 40 years ago
ROBERT HARDMAN: Thousands of ex-servicemen and women were here at the National Memorial Arboretum yesterday to ensure those who died in the Falklands War are remembered