This chapter is mostly a fairly straightforward military narrative, so the things that caught my eye were a couple of side details – apart from the last few pages, which deal with comets, earthquakes and plague.
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Well, the stats going back to 1846 are pretty consistent with an age at first marriage of 21-22 for women, right up to the 1990s, so I don’t think the welfare state has a provable effect.