illnesses and their effects on history

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Re: illnesses and their effects on history

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Sepsis, aka blood poisining: The reason why half of Turkey is not part of Greece today

During the 1920 Turkish War of Independence against Greece, the King of Greece was bitten by a monkey. Developing sepsis from the bite, he died.

One of the new King’s first acts was the replace most of the professional senior officers in the Greek Army, who were running the war, with inexperienced officers loyal to the King. After this point, the Greek Army stopped being successful in its battles, and ultimately lost all of its against in Turkey within a 2 week period after the Turks reorganized under Ataturk and counter-attacked just under a year later…

Interesting. That means death of a single person can change the route of the history. This reminds me view of some historians, who believe that if British knew that Mr Jinah was suffering from deadly Tuberculosis, they would have delayed independence.