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by 1870 the army had lost over 150,000 men. As for the wider carnage, Urbain states in 1862 that the previous 32 years had killed, at a conservative estimate, over 480,000 people, not just soldiers. The troops suffered most at first but then, as barracks and hospitals were built, it was civilians who fell sick in greater proportion – and the natives probably lost over 500,000 souls
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