The death from the diseases of the european military forces is as bad as any i've ever seen at any time. Some of my favorite stories though, ecause they are absolutely horror show moments, come from this time period. I mean, louveture and friends has created an army that will drag you out into the hinterland s and kill you like a north vnemes regiment. There's echoes of that in leclerk's writings. As they marchd back in force to the burned out area, leclerk says, from a distance it looked like universal desolation. Our ruin was complete. He sought in vain what the fire had spared hands even more