The financial costs of war
Journal: Manchester University Press eBooks
Year: 2019

Because of the skilful and very effective Russian defense, the French had to keep enlarging their army; the French did not have the financial resources of the British and became unable to supply the larger army properly. The commissariat’s failure to send items such as pressed vegetables led to the outbreak of scurvy and other diseases. Following the fall of Sevastopol on 8 September 1855 many of the doctors and the trained soldier nurses died of disease, and in December typhus completely overwh