Disease alone halved the army in Sudan’s disastrous 1821 campaign

Evidence

In the early months of the disastrous Sudan campaign the army that he sent down there lost 600 men who fell dead of various diseases. Owing to the lack of doctors, medicine and qualified medical personnel the number of dead in September 1821 rose to 600 in addition to 2,000 men who had fallen prey to various diseases. The following month the number of dead rose even further to 1,500: this in an army of three thousand troops. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1116

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Directly ties into the reader’s stated interest in Muhammad Ali’s military expansion and the army’s performance — this quantifies how disease, not combat, was the campaign-killer that pushed the Pasha toward modern medicine.

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