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What surprised me was learning only 6,800 colonials died in battle during the American Revolutionary War, but 130,000 died from smallpox. https://en.m.wikipedi
by devoutsalsa 4y ago
What surprised me was learning only 6,800 colonials died in battle during the American Revolutionary War, but 130,000 died from smallpox.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
- bumby 4y agoThere seems to be a relatively large amount of uncertainty in those estimates. One source claims 17k “disease dead” while another claims 130k just from smallpox. The war dead estimates have a wide range too.
- cafard 4y agoWW I is said to have been the first in which more soldiers died of wounds than of disease.