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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2492494, member: 42634&quot;]great write up FN!!!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>interesting germ warfare discussion as well!&nbsp; i wonder if they thought that throwing the bodies over the wall would spread sickness (for whatever reason, sprits, bad smells)?&nbsp; if so, i think it would sort of count as germ warefare, even if they didn&#039;t have a clue what a germ was.</p><p><br /></p><p>i&#039;ve read about ancient/medieval people putting feces on their arrow tips, increasing infection...that would sort of count as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>an aside: just putting your army together is a disease bonanza.&nbsp; i got this figure out of a book called man and wound in the ancient world, but from more modern times with some more reliable numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>union army US civil war death from enemy fire:110,065</p><p>same army loss to disease: 224,586[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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