Historical Military Museum of the Canary Islands (official Website)
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They have a really nice collection of military artifacts, and the last time I visited some years ago I took pictures of the superb 1/72 scale dioramas depicting Nelson’s failed attack on Santa Cruz in 1797. This was where Nelson lost his arm leading his men into battle.
It was quite a famous event here – there is even a Horation Nelson street in Tenerife, named after this famous British invader.
I don’t know who made the dioramas but they have been in the museum since the early nineties. Whoever made this, they have made clever use of plastic figures.
Click on the pictures to enlarge.
Wikipedia has an interesting entry regarding the Battle of Santa Cruz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(1797)
AND... I'm going to give a shameless plug to one of my wargaming buddies Iván Cáceres, who published a great boardgame which you can see on the following link
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/235362/santa-cruz-1797
Cool stuff.
ReplyDeleteI would check it out if I ever get to Spain.
Definitely worth a visit, it's only a small place but the dioramas are cool and they have a nice varied collection of ordenance and historical items. They even had a couple of old 88mm guns and a Patton tank in the patio last time I was there. And it's free to go in.
DeleteLooks great. I like the shore line. Looks choppy lol
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