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Quotation from The River War by Winston Churchill
“But of the first thousand cases between Assuan and Suarda nearly eight hundred proved fatal”
The River War, Chapter VII: The Recovery of the Dongola Province (1902 edition)
The cholera epidemic that crept up the Nile in summer 1896 and devastated soldiers and camp followers.
Citation: "But of the first thousand cases between Assuan and Suarda nearly eight hundred proved fatal" — Winston Churchill, The River War, Chapter VII: The Recovery of the Dongola Province (1902 edition). (id the-river-war-q4)
Portrait: The Roaring Lion, Flickr : Sir Winston Churchill, Public domain.
