Disease, not combat, killed most Egyptian soldiers after Acre fell

Evidence

The health conditions in Acre after it had fallen were appalling; 1, 525 men died, most of them of malaria and hepatitis: Sham 18/184, on 25 N 1248/16 February 1833. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1187