Microscopic Enemies – Five Epidemics that Destroyed Armies

“From ancient times right up to the 21st Century, militaries either in garrison or on campaign have had to do battle with disease.” THE ANCIENT GREEK city-state of Athens was in a fight to the death against…

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Filmmaker Explores Smallpox and the Franco Prussian War

PRIOR TO THE 20th CENTURY, armies on campaign typically lost more men to disease than battle. Consider the following: During the Napoleonic Wars, 375,000 French soldiers died in combat, while more than 800,000 succumbed to illness.[1]…

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