>>6762912Army casualties in the French Empire during 1803-1815 amounted to a total of around 1,8 million men. "Only" 371,000 were killed on the battlefield, rest died to disease, later wounds or froze to death while retreating from Russia.
He thinks that back then dying on the battlefield was more "glorious" than it is nowadays but it's the complete opposite, back then if you were just an average infantry ranker you were just buried near the battlefield in a mass grave that isn't marked on any map. Now if you enlist in the army and end up getting blow up by a suicide bomber in some Middle-Eastern shithole, your body will be brought all the way back home and you will be given a hero's funeral with full military honours
