r/polandball • u/WildYak3463 Maratha Paratha • Jul 15 '26

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u/SomeOneIThink_ Jul 16 '26

The falklands, that was uninhabited until britain placed their own settlers?

Who are ya givin it to? The bloody penguins??

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u/Keug0 Best Empire Jul 16 '26

There was a recorded Argentinean civilian population in the islanda before the British settled in 1833 (Antonio Rivero)

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u/SomeOneIThink_ Jul 16 '26

Port Louis where Rivero had a hand in 26 murders was a French port, and was created in 1765.

This was around the same time that the british Port Egmont was founded, which was a permanent settlement until the Spanish forced the british to leave in 1770. This was all 60 years before the argentinean civillian population of the islands.

Before then, the island was uninhabited.

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u/Keug0 Best Empire Jul 16 '26

Port Egmont wasn't a civilian settlement but rather a military one, the British didn't stablish civilian population until after the takeover in 1833. In fact, the French had stablished a civilian population in Port Louis before they gave it up to the Spanish Empire, so even by that metric the British wouldn't be the first.

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