THE COST OF WARS FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS.
I The following statement (the Economist j says) appears in a contemporary, and is ■{ 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 the various nations concerned, and include, in addition to the troops slain, a portion of the deatfis occasioned by the ravages of the wars among the civil population : | I.—Lives Lost, 18.12-77—Killed in Battle, $ or Died of Wounds ami Disease. < Persons. j Crimean War 750, OUU I Italian War (1559) 45,000 i. War of Sleswick-Holstein ... 8,000 | American » ivil War — ] The .North ... 2S0.000) :j The South ... 520,000 ( 600,000 :| War between Prussia, Austria, : | and Italy in ISU6 '. 45,000 \ Expeditions to Mexico, Coc* in 1 China, Morocco, Paraguay, .] &c Go, 000 4 Franco-German War of IS7O- - 71i\ France 155,000 ) o ,. nrn i _ Germany ... 00,0U0 ) y Turkish massacres of Christians j Bulgaria, Armenia. &c, 1576- J l\ 77 ' 25,000 1 1 Total 1,948,000 ! • | ll.—Cost, 1552-77. 1 Crimean War £340,000.000 J Italian War of 1559 60,000,000 ; l American Civil War—--A The xNorth ...£940,000,000 / . .„„ <w , n nnn d The South ... 400.0,0,000 { 1.400,000,000 3 Sleswick-liolstein War ... 7,000,000 j Austrian and Prussian War, | ISGG 60,000,000 A expeditions to Mexico, Mor| rocco, I'araguav, &e. (say I only) * 40,000,000 3 Franco-Prussian War... ... 500,000,000 1 Total £2,413,000,000
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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 423, 5 September 1877, Page 3
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