Against Spain - Spanish Troops at Havana

 As Against Spain is out soon I thought it would be a good idea to give you an overview of some of the Spanish units which took part in actions during the siege of Havana.

The Spanish have a colourful army which is straightforward to paint and whose white coats be broken up with blues and even yellow to make a colourful force to paint up. 

The army wore a plain coat, with turned back tails, large cuffs and a small collar. Equipment was natural leather, probably of a buff colour. Headgear either a yellow laced tricorn with a red cockade or a fur grenadier cap with a hanging bag in the facing colour. 

The table below gives the units who fought at Havana. 

In addition to these units there were sailors and marines from the fleet, the latter in blue coats with red turn backs and cuffs, breeches and waist coats. There were also militia in civilian clothing from rural towns and villages near Havana. 

For figures I used Crann Tara's Spanish, but SYW French with turnbacks would suit from several suppliers or the slightly later AWI Spanish figures from Perry Miniatures. For the civilian militia I have Minden AWI militia and Crann Tara civilians and again AWI types would suit here. For the Blanco, Pardo and Moreno militia I used Crann Tara again as they designed the latter for me especially for the book. But since uniforms were probably not issued until after the siege you can use civilians militia. Eagle Figures make some nice Militia and Orinoco have some nice figures which would be great for the rural militiamen from the area surrounding Havana. 

STOP PRESS....the books are on their way to me now and I should have them in my hands very soon.