The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 is the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history, as it killed more people than World War II as well as all four years of the Black Plague, killing somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. Of these people, an estimated 28% were Americans.
Malaria.
don't mean to let you down but i have searched the web and it doesn't show how many Spaniards died in the Spanish-American war. I guess it's simply not recorded.
After the Spanish arrived in the Caribbean islands, many of the local Native Americans were enslaved, killed, or died from diseases brought by the Europeans. The Spanish also forced them to convert to Christianity and disrupted their traditional way of life. The population of Native Americans declined significantly due to these factors.
- Native Americans were used as laborers or slaves. - This forced the Native Americans to starve. - Disease took a toll on Native Americans; they were vulnerable to smallpox, measles, and typhus, and many of the died.
Many speak Spanish.
About 51000 Americans died in the Vietnam conflict.
The number of Americans who died in combat is 2,757,196.
It reminded the Americans of their own revolutionary heritage.
So many Native Americans in Central America survived the encounter with the Spanish because they withdrew to the inland mountains.
1800 americans died in the battle of Alamo.
about 1 million died
Because the were allowed to live in Spanish towns as equals