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While ''Kilo'' Company was fighting on the eastern end of the summit and coming under artillery fire, ''Lima'' Company was making its way up the southern slopes of Mount Harriet under heavy machine gun fire from 2d Lieutenant Pablo Andrés Oliva's platoon of conscripts which opened fire soon after Captain David Wheen's men crossed their start-line, wounding three British marines in the process. British artillery fire and MILAN anti-tank missiles were successful in knocking out these and other troublesome enemy machine-gun sangars further up the slope, but it took a number of hours and 14 wounded from Argentinian artillery and automatic fire, before ''Lima'' Company reached the summit, still in the dark. Lieutenant Jerry Burnell's 5 Troop of ''Lima'' Company was then sent forward to the next objective, an  outcrop of rocks just to the south of Goat Ridge, but was initially forced to retreat until the defenders in the form of 2d Lieutenant Lautaro Jiménez Corbalán 3rd Rifle Platoon crumbled under heavy fire from fifteen GPMG machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire.

While ''Kilo'' Company was fighting on the eastern end of the summit and coming under artillery fire, ''Lima'' Company was making its way up the southern slopes of Mount Harriet under heavy machine gun fire from 2d Lieutenant Pablo Andrés Oliva's platoon of conscripts which opened fire soon after Captain David Wheen's men crossed their start-line, wounding three British marines in the process. British artillery fire and MILAN anti-tank missiles were successful in knocking out these and other troublesome enemy machine-gun sangars further up the slope, but it took a number of hours and 14 wounded from Argentinian artillery and automatic fire, before ''Lima'' Company reached the summit, still in the dark. Lieutenant Jerry Burnell's 5 Troop of ''Lima'' Company was then sent forward to the next objective, an  outcrop of rocks just to the south of Goat Ridge, but was initially forced to retreat until the defenders in the form of 2d Lieutenant Lautaro Jiménez Corbalán 3rd Rifle Platoon crumbled under heavy fire from fifteen GPMG machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire.

With dawn and ''Lima'' Company still fighting forward, ''Juliet'' Company was ordered on to Goat Ridge, by which time the defending rifle platoon under 2d Lt Oscar Augusto Silva had retreated and ''Kilo'' Company had cleared the summit of Harriet. In taking its objective, 42 Commando had lost two killed and thirty wounded.<ref>"2 COYS OF 42 CDO HAD TAKEN A REGIMENTAL POSITION FOR 2 KILLED AND 30 WOUNDED ... WE HAD BEEN ORDERED TO BE PREPARED TO PRESS FORWARD THE ATTACK ONTO MOUNT TUMBLEDOWN AND MOUNT WILLIAM IF THE ENEMY FLED OUR INITIAL ATTACK, AND TIME ALLOWED. BY DAWN IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT WE WERE IN NO POSITION TO ATTACK.  WE WERE EXHAUSTED, OUT OF AMMO AND SUFFERING SIGNIFICANT CASUALTIES.  MY 21C, A RADIO OPERATOR, MY TAC HQ MACHINE GUNNER AND ONE OF MY TROOP COMMANDERS HAD ALL BEEN SHOT, AND A FURTHER 10 ALSO WOUNDED.  ANOTHER TROOP COMMANDER I DISCOVERED WAS SUFFERING FROM SHELLSHOCK". [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1986/WDG.htm A  Rifle Company Commander's Perspective, Major David G. Wheen, Royal Marines]</ref>

With dawn and ''Lima'' Company still fighting forward, ''Juliet'' Company was ordered on to Goat Ridge, by which time the defending rifle platoon under 2d Lt Oscar Augusto Silva (a paratrooper) had retreated to new positions on Tumbledown Mountain and ''Kilo'' Company had cleared the summit of Harriet. In taking its objective, 42 Commando had lost two killed and thirty wounded.<ref>"2 COYS OF 42 CDO HAD TAKEN A REGIMENTAL POSITION FOR 2 KILLED AND 30 WOUNDED ... WE HAD BEEN ORDERED TO BE PREPARED TO PRESS FORWARD THE ATTACK ONTO MOUNT TUMBLEDOWN AND MOUNT WILLIAM IF THE ENEMY FLED OUR INITIAL ATTACK, AND TIME ALLOWED. BY DAWN IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT WE WERE IN NO POSITION TO ATTACK.  WE WERE EXHAUSTED, OUT OF AMMO AND SUFFERING SIGNIFICANT CASUALTIES.  MY 21C, A RADIO OPERATOR, MY TAC HQ MACHINE GUNNER AND ONE OF MY TROOP COMMANDERS HAD ALL BEEN SHOT, AND A FURTHER 10 ALSO WOUNDED.  ANOTHER TROOP COMMANDER I DISCOVERED WAS SUFFERING FROM SHELLSHOCK". [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1986/WDG.htm A  Rifle Company Commander's Perspective, Major David G. Wheen, Royal Marines]</ref>

==Aftermath==

==Aftermath==