War
During the Crimean Campaign of ene year and a- half, 341,000 men were buried in the district of Taurida, which includes the Crimea The Kussians lost 170,000 soldiers ; the English, French, and Turks 150,000 ; and there were 15,000 Tartar victims. Of this total 324,800 were interred in the Crimea, including 210,000 in the neighborhood of Sebastopol. Those killed in battle were about 30,000, and, allowing an equal number for the losses from wounds. 231,000 must tare succumbed from disease. The deaths of sick persons sent away from the seat of war were about 60,000 more, which makes the number of dead from the Crimean Campaign 401,000.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 72, 18 December 1886, Page 3
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