Season 1 · Episode 124
Episode 124: What Was Life with Small Pox Like in the Revolutionary War with Michael Troy.
Today, we depart from our pandemic of to discuss what was easily the number one killer of colonial Americans in the Revolutionary War - infectious disease. Ten times as many died from small pox than died as a casualty of fighting in all the...
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Show Notes
Today, we depart from our pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 to discuss what was easily the number one killer of colonial Americans in the Revolutionary War - infectious disease. It is estimated that battle casualties totaled 5-6,000 while disease (infections like small pox and the like) killed between 40-50,000. The toll paid by the civilian population was even worse as loose estimates put the death toll at 100,000 from infection.
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