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Guarded by a naval battle squadron, regiments drawn from Britain, the American colonies, and the garrisons of captured French islands were sent to lay siege to Havana. With Havana in British hands the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFlota’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e route to carry the wealth of the Indies to Spain would be threatened and the Spanish economy would collapse, knocking Spain out of the war in one stroke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat was the plan, but the British invasion force soon learned the gruesome reality of campaigning in the tropics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early summer of 1762 Edward Carlisle in his fourth-rate ship-of-the-line \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDartmouth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is sent to scout the route to Havana through the dangerous Old Bahama Straits, and to bring in the vital American reinforcement convoys. 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