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Butcher’s Bills: Engagement-level preponderance and casualties in the French Revolution Wars and Napoleonic Wars, 1792–1815 Cover

Butcher’s Bills: Engagement-level preponderance and casualties in the French Revolution Wars and Napoleonic Wars, 1792–1815

By: John Hickman  
Open Access
|Mar 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jms-2023-0004 | Journal eISSN: 1799-3350 | Journal ISSN: 2242-3524
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