When the conquerors are dying of famine, what becomes of the conquered?

Thousands are dying of famine and drought.

How, in another place, great rejoicings were going on, while in a third people were dying of famine.

We'll have supper extremely soon, partly because I am dying of famine, and partly because people are sillier afterwards.

Of the seventy thousand men with which it left France, there only remained four or five thousand, and they were dying of famine.