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| | First Lieutenant Ernesto Emilio Espinosa on sentry duty on the top stairs window raised the alarm and was shot and killed by Corporal Steve Groves armed with a sniper rifle and moments later the building burst into flames. | | First Lieutenant Ernesto Emilio Espinosa on sentry duty on the top stairs window raised the alarm and was shot and killed by Corporal Steve Groves armed with a sniper rifle and moments later the building burst into flames. |
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| − | As Boswell and his assault group charged forward, two more 66mm rockets smashed into the house and the Argentinian special forces who had been holed up there fled to Mullows Stream 150 metres away. | + | As Boswell and his assault group charged forward, two more 66mm rockets smashed into the house and the Argentinian special forces who had taken cover there overnight fled to Mullows Stream 150 metres away. |
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| − | In the fierce firefight that followed, First Sergeant [[Mateo Domingo Sbert]] was killed while covering the retreat to the stream and the Argentinian second-in-command, First Lieutenant [[Horacio Losito]] lost consciousness through loss of blood before the remainder threw down their weapons and surrendered. | + | In the fierce firefight that followed, First Sergeant [[Mateo Domingo Sbert]] was killed while covering their retreat to the stream and the Argentinian second-in-command, First Lieutenant [[Horacio Losito]] lost consciousness through loss of blood before the remainder threw down their weapons and surrendered. |
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| − | The battle of Top Malo House, a few miles from Teal Inlet, on May 31 cost the lives of two members of Captain [[José Arnobio Vercesi]]'s 1st Assault Section of the 602nd Commando Company. The 10 survivors, six of them wounded, were taken prisoner. | + | The battle of Top Malo House, a few miles from Teal Inlet, on May 31 cost the lives of two members of Captain [[José Arnobio Vercesi]]'s 1st Assault Section of the 602nd Commando Company. The 10 Argentinian survivors, six of them wounded, were taken prisoner. |
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| − | Just three Royal Marine Commandos were wounded, a testament to the professionalism and skill of Britain's Special Forces. Unknown to Boswell's men, however, the 45-minute fight had been watched by Argentinian Air Force Observation Posts (OPs) manning OPs on nearby hills. So awestruck were they by the textbook assault, that 14 of them left their positions and walked down to surrender. | + | Just three Royal Marine Commandos were wounded, a testament to the professionalism and skill of Britain's Special Forces. Unknown to Boswell's men, however, the 45-minute fight had been watched by Argentinian Air Force Observation Posts (OPs) manning OPs on nearby hills. So awestruck were they by the textbook assault, that 14 of them surrendered to the Paratroopers and Royal Marines making their way to Estancia Mountain and Bluff Cove Peak. |
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| − | The Argentinian Army Special Forces had been using Mount Simon and Big Mountain to report on and harry the British advance towards Mount Kent, the first of several peaks guarding the approach to Port Stanley.
| + | Captain José Arnobio Vercesi's 1st Assault Section from the 602nd Commando Company and Captain [[José Ramón Negretti]]'s 2nd Assault Section from Major [[Mario Luis Castagneto]]'s 601st Commando Company had been using Mount Simon and Big Mountain to report on and harry the British advance towards Mount Kent, the first of several peaks guarding the approach to Port Stanley. |
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| | ==Aftermath== | | ==Aftermath== |