The Falklands Crisis of 1770 is a diplomatic standoff between Britain and Spain over possession of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
These events are nearly the cause of a war between France, Spain and Britain.
The countries poise to dispatch armed fleets to contest the barren but strategically important sovereignty.Ultimately, a lack of French support for Spain defuses tension, and Spain and Britain reach an inconclusive compromise in which both nations maintain their settlements and neither relinquishes their sovereignty claim to the islands.
