Epic battle strategy - get sick!
Interesting fact I learned today.
For most of history, germs have killed far more people than wars.
Often invading armies defeated nations by bringing diseases with their soldiers.
Quote (from Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond)
“Until World War Two, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds. All those military histories glorifying great generals oversimplify the ego-deflating truth: the winners of past wars were not always the armies with the best generals and weapons, but were often merely those bearing the nastiest germs to transmit to their enemies.”
I love it! History was never this interesting at school.
Image credit: By Robert Alexander Hillingford, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3278768
