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December 1794 CE
During the course of 1794, most of the British forces have been killed by the dreaded "black vomit" as the British call it, as within two months of arriving in St. Domingue the British had lost forty officers and six hundred men to yellow fever.
Ultimately, of Grey's seven thousand men, about five thousand will die of yellow fever while the Royal Navy will report osing "...forty-six masters and eleven hundred men dead, chiefly of yellow fever".
The British historian Sir John Fortescue will write "It is probably beneath the mark to say that twelve thousand Englishmen were buried in the West Indies in 1794". (Perry, James Arrogant Armies Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them, Edison: Castle Books, 2005 page 69.)
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