Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: War and Disease in Ancien Regime Europe 1648-1789

by Padraig Lenihan

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"