Also thinking Verdun here, Alsace-Lorraine is a very fought over territory. Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, 30 years war, a lot of late medieval warfare and every time the French got into fights with the Habsburgs, a lot of blood were spilled here.
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Also thinking Verdun here, Alsace-Lorraine is a very fought over territory. Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, 30 years war, a lot of late medieval warfare and every time the French got into fights with the Habsburgs, a lot of blood were spilled here.
If you go back to the 30 Years War, medieval history, or earlier, the sizes of the armies were dwarfed by the massive forces fielded in the 20th Century. Other than a couple of late 19th Century conflicts, nothing before that is likely to add up to the astronomical casualty figures from WWI or WWII.
Yes, 100 battles over 300 years, but each battle probably comprised of 20,000 men or less, and only 2000 of those became casualties. That's not close to a million.
Yes, 100 battles over 300 years, but each battle probably comprised of 20,000 men or less, and only 2000 of those became casualties. That's not close to a million.
I wonder if all those people dying there had any effect on the chemical composition of the soil in certain areas. Like, there must have been lots of blood during said battles, especially with the artillery raining on the poor guys.
Though I guess any changes due to human remains would be dwarfed by gas and fire due to the fighting.
Women prefered to wash at streams downward a battlefield or graveyard. The laundry got cleaner this way.
Personally I would say that the Mongolians sacking of Baghdad organized by hulagu khan which some historians label as high as 2 million people were slaughtered because the caliph who had just recently been put into that office/level of hierarchy had insulted the great khan but not opening there gates and allowing them in as his predecessors had done resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Islamic religion also didn’t help hulagu was a Christian but another terrible outcome was that every philosopher and scientist was exterminated and every book was burned and the lands were salted and all irrigation was destroyed and filled in followed by hulagu chopping down every palm tree for miles so that nothing would grow in that region again if we count how many deaths were caused by this then that singular battle cause multiple millions and probably would have had the Middle East as a centre of knowledge and wealth instead of throwing them back hundreds of generations and losing all the medical breakthroughs that they were known for
Actually there are documented records from the Chinese and Mongolians talking about how after gengis khan attacked the second Chinese empire the land around the city was covered in 1 foot of what looked to be oil but was actually the remains of the decomposing body’s of the Chinese civilians
Another thing that people forget is that the Mongolians were completely horse back besides the vassal soldiers that there conquered (allies) sent them and if you can image 150000 Mongolian archers riding towards you and flanking around you while your small number of horsemen are surrounded and slaughtered and then your infantry units are left slow and immobile but you get a glimmer of hope as the Mongolians start routing so your soilders think you have won and chase them down to hopefully catch some and kill them but little do you know that they have been trained since before they could walk to fire an arrow at the exact moment all 4 hooves are off the ground allowing for a perfectly aim shot at you and your men and 150000 men turn into a million arrows
100 Square kilometres (6 miles by 6 miles) is a much smaller area than people realise, it's basically the size of a single pre-modern battlefield if you include scouting and skirmishes. So the question is basically just which battle was the largest or which city has been fought over most.
10k sq.km might be better. Even then it's very small
10k sq.km might be better. Even then it's very small
