Fifteen hundred Egyptian soldiers died of disease after taking Acre.
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…, 1185
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: how many total casualties did the Egyptian army suffer in the Syrian campaign, and how many were disease deaths versus combat deaths?
Related
- Disease, not combat, killed most Egyptian soldiers after Acre fell (similarity 0.94)
- Disease killed far more soldiers than combat in the Syrian campaign (similarity 0.90)
Broader Connections
- Acre’s garrison lost 1,525 men to disease after the city fell
#corroborates(0.92) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1187