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Battle of Sapper Hill (view source)
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The Battle of Sapper Hill was an engagement in the Falklands War, one of a series of battles that took place during the British advance towards Port Stanley.
==British plan==
The Welsh Guards were then given the task of assaulting Sapper Hill on the morning of June 14 1982, after the Scots Guards had attacked and captured Mount Tumbledown. Sapper Hill, a grassy hillock 453 feet high, was the last Argentine strong-point outside Port Stanley, and its capture, along with those of Mounts Tumbledown and William and Wireless Ridge, would bring an end to the fighting around the Falklands capital.
The Welsh Guards were then given the task of assaulting Sapper Hill on the morning of June 14 1982, after the Scots Guards had attacked and captured Mount Tumbledown. Sapper Hill, a grassy hillock 453 feet high, was the last Argentine strong-point outside Port Stanley, and its capture, along with those of Mounts Tumbledown and William and Wireless Ridge, would bring an end to the fighting around the Falklands capital.