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killed or by their wounds. in other words, they died as a direct result of combat in the war. i did some calculations, and i found that in fact about 10% more of the army died of disease, sickness, and other causes that are not directly related to battle. they were simply a product of the very unhealthy nature of military camps, the inability to provide decent sanitation, these sorts of things, which diseases, if they got into an arm camp, they could go through and take a very heavy toll on life substantially more men died as a result of disease, sickness. and then there s a bit of colateral damage that occurs that millyisha die as a result of the british raids of the sort we ve been talking about. we might estimate that 15,000, 16,000 americans died one way or another as a result of the war of 1812. the indians suffered i think proportionately higher percentage of lossesle we don t know precisely, because we don t have good figures for indian population, but of course ....
1832 in the wake of nat turner s revolt. until then, there s an actual fair amount of teaching slaves to read and write, particularly artisans and house slaves. the other thing is, this is also a period in which the vast majority of enslaved people in the chesapeake have become christians, and they re usually methodist or baptist and their class leaders or teachers would like many of them to be able to read the bible. so there s much more literacy than we have bargained on, and you don t need everybody to be able to read it. if there s one group of 50 who can read, he can read it to everybody else. the other thing is that people in america are lousy at keeping secrets. they are the world s worst people at keeping secrets and this comes back to bite them all time in the war of 1812. you get officers in the front line writing letters about how terrible their troops are and they re not prepared and they re sick and they get published in the newspapers of that time. people ....