The Seven Years War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of European states. InDisease, War, and the Imperial State, Erica Charters demonstrates how disease played a vital role in shaping strategy and campaigning, British state policy, and imperial relations during the Seven Years War. Military medicine was a crucial component of the British war effort; it was central to both eighteenth-century...
The Seven Years War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as...