
Early Modern Europe
She Cataloged Mohács's Dead and Got Erased
A Hungarian needlewoman spent years cataloguing Ottoman battlefield corpses and became the first person in history to conduct a systematic military mortality study—then her conclusions got her quietly erased.
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