American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1856-01-31
RosnIts OF Mar.

AT HohRniindeI tina Austrian loss was
i6, 0e0; the French 5000.
AT Austerlitz, the Allies, out of 80. 600.
men, lost 80, in killed aud wounded OF
prisoners; the French loss only (D 10000.
Athena and Austerstadt the Russians
lost $4,000 men, killed and wounded, and
nearly as many prisoners, making nearly
10000 in all; and the French $4,000 in
killed and wounded.
/ At the terrific battle Of Eylan, the Rus
slams lost $4,000 in killed and wounded,
and the French $4,000.
At Friedland the Russian loss was III
1000 in killed aud wounded; the French
loss, 5000.
AT Wagram the Austtians and French
lost each $4,000 men, or so, 600 III all, 10
killed and wounded.
At Smoleuski the French loss was H.
600 men; that Of the Russians 10000.
At Borodinos which is ssid 10 have been
"the most murderous and obstinate fought
battle on record" the French lost ia kill
ed. wounded aud prisoners, $4,000 men;
the Russians about the same number, ma
king in all 100000 men in one battle!
Al Lutzen The French loss was l3, 900
man; the Allies 1900.
Al Bautzen the French lost o5,0 0 men.
the Allies $1,000.
AT Dresdsa, where the battle lasted
two days, the Allies lost in killed, wound
ed aud prisoners, $4,000 men and the
French between 5000 and IL, 900.
AT Leipsic. which lasted three days,
Napoleon lost three marshals, twenty gen
erals and about 60. 900 men, in killed,
wounded and prisoners; tho Allies 200
officers and about 10000 men-upwards
of 100000 men in all
AtLigny the Prussian ms lost 5000 men
; in killed, wounded and prisoners the
French G, 800.
The battle of Tribbia lasted three days;
! andthc French and Allies lost each about
IL, 900 men.
, Hero we have battles. among which
} are some, compared to which those in the
Crimea were but small engagements, as
greet as they appear to us. Besides these
were several others Of minor Importance
to the foregoing. as to the loss Of men, but
: largo in The aggregate. There were those
of the Bridge Of Lodi, a most desperately
' contested ight--lhs famous battle Of the
Nile, a sea fight, in which Nelson lost 895
! men in killedand wounded, and the French
5225 in killed and wounded, 3,o05 prison
: ers, and 10 out Of II ships engaged in the
aotion-,hat of the Bay Of Aboukir, where
: the French had 5000 men engaged, and
: the Turks 5000, and every man Of the
: Turks was lost, in killed, wounded and
prisoners - Fingers, -Marengo, a
most desperate and BOLDLY engagement
Mazda, whore the French, out Of 1900
u men engaged, lost about a, 800 in killed,
wounded and prisoners-Talavera, anoth.
or famous and bloody engagement; Albu
9 era. where tho British, out Of 1900 mer
engaged, lost 1900; Salamanca, Vittoria
Toulouae, Paris, and Quatre Bas.
q In all these battles, the loss in killed ant
wounded, on all sides, was at least a mil
lion If men, besides thousands in skirmish
es, minor engagements, &C., and tina
~ within a period Of less thah thirty years
Enormous as is this loss and injury Of life
" of those who fall in battle and are manned
y by wounds, it is but small compared to III,
is loss Of life caused otherwise by war. "Tb'
numbers killed and wounded in battle
says a writer, "afe no fall index to tn
oi loss of life in war, and seldom compris
one-fourth Of its actual victims" II |
- small compared to the immense number
carried off by disease; exposure and oths
W casualties incident to war.
u Allison says of the campsignof 1905
o. ain little moro than four months tn
~ Frenchan allied armies had lost half @
Is their collective forces; those cut off, or Ii
% recoverably mutilated by the sword, bein
Vo about 10000 men" And, 'the surv
OF vors Of the French army from the Russia
o. campaign, were not more than $500
~ men, out Of an army Of about SOC, 900"
o., Such are tho curses Of war 1t is tn
greatest calamity that can befall a natior
or and more to be dreaded than plague, pest
ne lence and famine. If it has any advanti
a. ges, they are of such character ms the hu'
hg ricane or earthquake produce in nature
" more Of q negative than Of a positive cha
Isl a%cter--in the destruction of tyrannical g
70 vernmonts, and old, time.worn polite
OF systems Of error and oppression, w
AE should be q dernier resort, and q matte
81 should submit to any evil rather than Of
gage in one.-N Y Times.
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