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Arming turn of the (previous) century Haitian revolutionaries

Mar 13, 2010 17:26

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~weapons (misc), 1900-1909, 1910-1919, caribbean: history, ~military (misc)

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duckodeath March 14 2010, 05:34:04 UTC

They'd almost certainly have machetes if nothing else.

tamtrible March 14 2010, 11:19:41 UTC

Already gave one of them a machete, he'd have one even if the others didn't (there are 5 of them, and I gave them all somewhat different specialties). I figured machetes would be fairly likely for them, though--they might even be likely today.

dave_littler March 14 2010, 06:45:05 UTC

I was about to point out that their weapons ten years ago wouldn't have been substantially different than what they would be wielding today, and then I noticed it was the turn of the previous century you were talking about. Your subject line, she is confusing!

tamtrible March 14 2010, 11:17:48 UTC

Fixed that, sorry to confuse.

chickenfeet2003 March 14 2010, 11:13:07 UTC

By the time you are talking about the Western armies had all reequipped with bolt action magazine fed rifles using cartridges with smokeless propellant e.g. The 1898 Mauser. There were still a lot of the previous generation of rifle around. Those were single shot breech loaders using black powder. Again a myriad of models. You could legitimately let your guys have either I think.

tamtrible March 14 2010, 11:20:50 UTC

Okies. Thanks.

eleanorb March 14 2010, 14:03:13 UTC

The Lee-Enfield was widely traded to revolutionary groups at the time.

tamtrible March 14 2010, 14:35:10 UTC

Thank you.
Likely the earlier iterations, I would assume? (that is, Joe Average Revolutionary wouldn't have the latest and greatest Lee-Enfield, just the older version(s), right?)

1mercystreet March 15 2010, 22:10:18 UTC

I second the suggestion of the machete. Not only is it a powerful symbol in Haiti (it's associated with Ogoun, the Vodou spirit of war and iron), but if your undead revolutionaries worked in the sugarcane fields in life, they'd be adept at using it.

tamtrible March 15 2010, 23:34:31 UTC

Well, they were revolutionaries when they were alive. But, yeah, it's likely that at least some of them were peasants who worked on sugarcane fields before they joined whatever revolution they joined.

Nice to know about the vodou associations, since, well, the character that they're now working for is a scion of Legba. And it's entirely likely that Legba got them from another deity, as he's not exactly the sort to have warriors dedicating themselves to him...