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The reserve platoon under Second Lieutenant Juan Nazer had been heavily mortared and had given up ground almost immediately.  Nazer's platoon had failed to prepare a firm platoon defence line facing Murrell River, possibly as a result of exhaustion following their long debilitating period on Beagle Ridge.

The reserve platoon under Second Lieutenant Juan Nazer had been heavily mortared and had given up ground almost immediately.  Nazer's platoon had failed to prepare a firm platoon defence line facing Murrell River, possibly as a result of exhaustion following their long debilitating period on Beagle Ridge.

Sergeant-Major George Meachin of ''Yankee'' Company, later praised the fighting spirit of the Argentinian defenders:{{cquote|We came under lots of effective fire from 0.50 calibre machine guns …At the same time, mortars were coming down all over us, but the main threat was from those machine-gunners who could see us in the open because of the moonlight. There were three machine-guns and we brought down constant and effective salvoes of our own artillery fire on to them directly, 15 rounds at a time. There would be a pause, and they’d come back at us again. So we had to do it a second time, all over their positions. There’d be a pause, then ‘boom, boom, boom,’ they’d come back at us again. Conscripts don’t do this, babies don’t do this, men who are badly led and of low morale don’t do this. They were good steadfast troops. I rate them.<ref>The FN FAL Battle Rifle, Bob Cashner, Page 57, Bloomsbury Publishing 2013</ref>}}

Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Whitehead looked in wonderment at the strength of the positions the enemy had abandoned:{{cquote|With 120 men I could have died of old age holding these hills.<ref>The Battle for the Falklands, Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins, p. 296, Michael Joseph, 1983</ref>}}

 

According to Robert Fox:{{cquote|"The marine commandos, organised into burial parties, were taking out the dead Argentinians and laying them out to be placed in a mass grave. Many of the dead were regular soldiers, the NCOs who had manned the machine-gun posts in the rocks. The first prisoners to come in were the regulars, too, as the conscripts had run first and run furthest." <ref>Eyewitness Falklands: A Personal Account of the Falklands Campaign, Robert Fox, page 256, Methuen, 1982 </ref>}}

==Harriet==

==Harriet==