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		hermitcrab 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dead soldiers' teeth reveal diseases that doomed N... And probably with limited access to sugar.

boomboomsubban 28 days ago [–]

Probably, cane sugar was unavailable due to blockades and the Napoleonic expansion of beet sugar was only just starting.

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