Margaret Thatcher arrived in the Falkland Islands on Saturday for a four-day visit marking the 10th anniversary of the end of Britain's war with Argentina over the colony.
Hundreds of islanders greeted the former prime minister as she drove into Port Stanley, the capital. Cheering children waved British flags."I'd do it again. Look at these children - of course I'd do it again," she told reporters, who asked if she had any regrets about sending Britons to war in 1982 to recapture the British colony from invading Argentinian troops.
The war cost the lives of 712 Argentines and 255 British soldiers.
On Sunday, Thatcher is to attend a church service to which all the islands' 2,200 inhabitants have been invited.
On Monday she will visit Blue Beach, 55 miles west of Port Stanley, where British troops landed to recapture the islands. On Tuesday she will watch an air display at Mount Pleasant, 40 miles from Port Stanley.
Argentina, which says the islands are its territory, invaded on April 2, 1982. Three days later Britain dispatched a task force from Plymouth in southern England. By June 14, it had recaptured the islands.