Also, we we don't catch murderers.
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Oh yeah, anyone who acts like premodern war wasn't super lethal, Europe or not, and often in the absence of a state extraordinarily brutal is kidding themselves.
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Weren’t like most deaths also separate from the battles/fights themselves and mostly like the result of things like infected wounds and food poisoning starvation in the aftermath?
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Medieval war was mostly raids and sieges, both quite lethal. Pitched battles were very rare. Macdonald, https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/30740/643110.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y …pic.twitter.com/6w78aL32DR
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That's as much because the mechanisms of a set piece battle are really hard to engineer with the small and rather limited armies of the time as anything else, though.
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