[Palter]

McNeill is a Georgetown University professor of environmental history and author of many books, including "Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914."

[Palter]

Ping. Ya might need to use Bugmenot, because it’s a Wash Post article.

[Loud Mime]

Dem Mosquitos beat the French in Panama as well

[BuffaloJack]

I can definitely attest to the mosquitos in that area.
Up until my teens, I grew up a few miles from Yorktown and remember the mosquitos being so bad that in the summer that the local military bases (Langley Air Force Base mostly) using military planes to spray every other week for mosquitos.

[donozark]

The Vietnam War (the early years) suffered from this mosquito. A vicious little bastard. The evacuation rates from the battlefield for “...persistent, continuous fever of 102 degrees for 24 hours” led to some units dropping a very high percentage of their men.
Also led to introduction of “The Orange Pill/Monday morning pill.” Now a known cancer causer. Dapsone, taken daily when outside the wire. Another known cancer causer.

[Waverunner]

evidently the mosquito’s were rebels and only bit the Brit’s and Germans? So I guess it wasn’t Nathanael Greene, Daniel Morgan, and Francis Marion after all. (BTW Morgan contracted malaria in SC, forcing him to retire from command),

[driftless2]

Interesting article, but McNeill makes a false claim “without mosquitoes there would be no U.S.” Even if it could be proved that mosquitoes helped, clsiming success on one factor is a bad argument.

[SunkenCiv]

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