Were mosquitoes a major problem for soldiers who fought in wars

>>3070773

Yes, the French lost in Haiti primarily because malaria devastated their army.

>>3070773
Comes up a lot in Lewis and Clark's journals and North America isn't even tropical. His men used animal tallow as a lotion to keep the mosquitoes away.

>>3070773
Alexander The Great was believed to have died of malaria, and the Huns were devastated with Malaria after crossing into western Europe.

>>3070967
There was malaria in Western Europe? When did it go away?

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>>3070776
it was yellow fever I think.

>>3070975
DDT.

Almost went completely away throughout the world but then people started screeching about bird eggs

This is exactly why Sweden had to take 300 years and the help of teutonic knights to conguer Finland.

Vikings fear the mosquito's

>>3070998
Wow. I never knew that. Amazing to think that even just a few generations ago there was actual malaria sufferers in the place I live.
Medicine and chemistry are amazing.

Britain and France experimented quite extensively with amphibious assaults in tropical regions during the 7 years war, but mosquito borne disease made them costly disasters for both sides.

>>3070998
>but then people started screeching about bird eggs
to be fair it was causing ecological disaster and extinctions

>>3070779
They must've smelled like shit