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Battles of Mount Harriet and Two Sisters Mountain (view source)
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==Two Sisters==
==Two Sisters==
X Company headed across the open ground towards ''Long Toenail'' led by Lieutenant James Kelly's 1 Troop, and less than a mile short of the peak, Lieutenant David Stewart's 3 Troop took over the lead, but half way up was stopped by heavy machine gun fire and forced back. The enemy positions were hit by Milans and some mortar fire, and now Lieutenant Chris Caroe's 2 Troop pushed on to the summit under naval artillery fire. Reaching there, they were forced back by Argentinian shellfire, but shortly returned driving off the Argentinian 3rd Platoon. Soon after midnight as X Company continued its fight for ''Long Toenail'', Zulu Company followed by Yankee Company to their right, moved off from ''Pub Garden'' on their silent uphill approach. As the Argentinian 1st and 2nd Platoons were still distracted by X-Ray Company's attack, the other two companies went to ground until a flare near Zulu Company led to the right hand 8 Troop opening fire. The return enemy fire including mortars and artillery was so heavy, killing four men, that Lieutenant Clive Dytor led his men of 8 Troop forward in a bayonet charge towards the summit, followed by 7 Troop in a firefight that still left them short of their objective.
On their right, Yankee Company swung further right to come up alongside them, managing to knock out some of Major Cordon's machine guns holding up Zulu Company. 8 Troop was then able to advance towards the top covered by 7 Troop, and went on to clear enemy positions on the southern side of their objective, while 7 Troop went on to do the same on the northern side. Two and a half hours after crossing the start line, Zulu Company had taken the enemy strongpoint of 'Summer Days'. During this time, 9 Troop stayed back in reserve after suffering casualties from Major Jaimet's mortars. Yankee Company now moved between the Two Sisters peaks and below Zulu Company's 8 Troop, and headed for the eastern part of Two Sisters under heavy fire. Pushing on, and again using anti-armour weapons against enemy positions, all of Two Sisters was in 45 Cdo's hands before dawn. As they reorganized and dug in, heavy Argentine shelling started. Lieutenant-Colonel Whitehead prepared to move ahead towards Tumbledown Mountain, but was stopped by Brigadier Thompson. 45 Commando had now taken one of the main Argentine defenses for the loss of seven Marines and a Sapper of the Royal Engineers killed by small-arms and mortars.
On their right, Yankee Company swung further right to come up alongside them, managing to knock out some of Major Cordon's machine guns holding up Zulu Company. 8 Troop was then able to advance towards the top covered by 7 Troop, and went on to clear enemy positions on the southern side of their objective, while 7 Troop went on to do the same on the northern side. Two and a half hours after crossing the start line, Zulu Company had taken the enemy strongpoint of 'Summer Days'. During this time, 9 Troop stayed back in reserve after suffering casualties from Major Jaimet's mortars. Yankee Company now moved between the Two Sisters peaks and below Zulu Company's 8 Troop, and headed for the eastern part of Two Sisters under heavy fire. Pushing on, and again using anti-armour weapons against enemy positions, all of Two Sisters was in 45 Cdo's hands before dawn. As they reorganized and dug in, heavy Argentine shelling started. Lieutenant-Colonel Whitehead prepared to move ahead towards Tumbledown Mountain, but was stopped by Brigadier Thompson. 45 Commando had now taken one of the main Argentine defenses for the loss of seven Marines and a Sapper of the Royal Engineers killed by small-arms and mortars.