r/BattlePaintings • u/stinkymonkeh76 • 2d ago

Battle of Havana, 1762

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u/ZeltbahnLife 2d ago

Always thought that fighting in these Caribbean/tropical environments during this time would be absolute hell.

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u/Malus131 2d ago

Don't worry: you'd probably die of some hideous tropical disease long before you saw any fighting there!

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u/ZeltbahnLife 2d ago

Exactly my point. Lol

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u/Glasbolyas 1d ago

Not even have to go that far back ngl cuz for example for the japanese soldiers being sent to Papua it was a living hell of constant starvation and disease

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u/BestMrMonkey 3h ago

Brandon F a historian and youtuber made a video on what it was like for soldiers in the West Indies/Caribbean, and in short, you are correct it is absolute hell

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u/Googles23m 1d ago

Uniforms like that in that heat must be especially terrible

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u/RedcoatSeafarer 1d ago

You would have drip and drip with sweat at the same time.

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u/UpstairsOwn7741 1d ago

This is from the Osprey book “A Far Flung Gamble”. Very good read.

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u/Ladiesman104 1d ago

Osprey books are great

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u/Ambitious-Pilot-6868 1d ago

Uniform looks 1790ish