THE COST OF WARS FOR THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
The following statement (the Eamomiit says) appears in a contemporary, and i« perhaps as near the truth as it is possible to come in so large a subject;— The following tables are carefully compiled from the official statistics of fhs various nations concerned, and, include, in addition to the troops slain, a portion of the deaths occasioned by the ravages of the wars among the civil population• Lost, 1852-77—Killed in Battle, or Died of Wounds and Disease. Persons. Crimean War ... 75",000 Italian War 0f1859 «.00u War oil Sleewlok- Holstein 3,000 American Civil War— The North 230.®01 800,000 The South 530,000 / War between Prussia, Austria, and Italy In 1866 ... 45,000 Expeditions to Mexico, Cochin Chino, Morocco, Paiaguay, ho ... ... 65,000 Franco-German Wat of 1870-71 SSSaZ ::: ‘SR als -™> Tnukish’massacres of Christians Bulgaria, Armenia, Ac, 1876-77 ... 25,000 Total 1,018,000 IL-Cost, 1853-77. Crimean War j 8310,000.000 Italian War of 1859 ... 60,000,000 American Civil War— The North J 8940,003,000 3 i 40 0 000 000 The Houth 460,000,000/ Sleswidk-Holateln War ... 7,(00,000 Anst'ian and Prussian War, 1866 ... 66,000,000 Expeditions to Mexico, Morocco, Paraguay, 4c (say only) ... ... 40,000,000 Pranoo-Pruasian War ... „• •>< 500,000,* 00 Total 82,413,000,000
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 5228, 21 November 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)
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195THE COST OF WARS FOR THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 5228, 21 November 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)
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