Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: War and Disease in Ancien Regime Europe 1648-1789
(Part of the From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 Series)
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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. During this time, field armies doubled in size and regimes usually fought for limited territorial gains, so it was safest to 'occupy, entrench, and wait'. Consequently, this was an era of massive and protracted...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1911628518
ISBN13:9781911628514
Release Date:October 2019
Publisher:Helion & Company
Length:176 Pages
Weight:1.76 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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