Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men - Lenihan, Padraig
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The proportion of wartime soldiers dying of disease as against combat injury, ran at about 70-75 percent in armies campaigning in Europe in the century and a half (1648-1789) between the end of the Thirty Years War and the French Revolution. Field armies doubled in size during this period and regimes usually fought for limited territorial gains, so

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The proportion of wartime soldiers dying of disease as against combat injury, ran at about 70-75 percent in armies campaigning in Europe in the century and a half (1648-1789) between the end of the Thirty Years War and the French Revolution. Field armies doubled in size during this period and regimes usually fought for limited territorial gains, so
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The author is a lecturer in history at the National University of Ireland Galway. He has researched and written on Irish history in the seventeenth century and on military history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.