The Crimean War was a significant conflict that unfortunately saw the majority of lives lost to disease rather than combat.

“it was known for a lot of things. There were some, you know, interesting people that came out of this, ended up being super famous, uh, and some a lot of lives lost, but notably, uh, most of the half a million lives lost, uh, like maybe as many as 75% died from disease and things like that instead o”