Argentine troops invaded the Falklands on April 2, rapidly overcoming the small garrison of British marines at the capital Stanley (Port Stanley); they obeyed orders not to inflict any British casualties, despite losses to their own units.
Many, like Mr. Chang, are giving second thought to living on the island, which is also host to a garrison of 1,000 marines and is just eight miles from heavily armed North Korea.
With that and the island's garrison of some 1,000 marines on heightened alert, the South seems almost to be spoiling for a fight.
The island houses a garrison of about 1,000 South Korean marines, and the navy has deployed its newest class of "patrol killer" guided-missile ships in the Western Sea, as the Yellow Sea is also known.
To them must be added the garrison of Italy the praetorian cohorts, or emperor's bodyguard, about 10,000 strong and the marines of the imperial fleet, which had its main headquarters at Misenum and Ravenna in Italy and subsidiary stations and flotillas on seas and rivers elsewhere (the marines, however, were not reckoned good combat forces).
In the skirmish, a Danish garrison of 170 men put up a sharp but ineffectual resistance that killed one British marine and wounded two before surrendering.
There is a garrison of seventy M.P.s.
They reinforced a local French garrison of 150.
