Disease killed far more soldiers than combat in the Syrian campaign

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

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• SHARE: A concrete casualty figure showing disease (malaria, hepatitis) dominated deaths after Acre fell — good for someone interested in 19th-century military medicine.
• XREF: Connects to McNeill’s Pursuit of Power (cited at 1202) on disease as the great killer of pre-modern armies.

Related

• Disease, not combat, killed most Egyptian soldiers after Acre fell (similarity 0.90)
• Fifteen hundred Egyptian soldiers died of disease after taking Acre. (similarity 0.90)
• Soldiers’ venereal diseases drained the fighting force in Syria (similarity 0.83)
• Syphilis alone matched all other soldier ailments combined in Syria (similarity 0.83)
• Disease alone halved the army in Sudan’s disastrous 1821 campaign (similarity 0.81)
• Poor Syrian hospital conditions undermined the army’s disease-control orders (similarity 0.79)
• Disease, not combat, destroyed a third of Muhammad Ali’s Sudan army within months (similarity 0.79)
• The Sudan campaign lost half its troops to disease for lack of doctors (similarity 0.78)