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] Of 8O000Oi men Of of1ww whom tbe Pe9rsiiar

i've. Vi 3UU,OUU men OF whom the Persian
army consisted at the commencement of the
action, not four thousand escaped the des-
truction of that fatal daysrs-t adj i.rn 5ao
The Romans although they sometimes
kept very numerous forces on foot in differ
ent parts of their dominions, seldom emp ploy-
ed above forty thousand men in the same
army. In their war with the Gauls, subse.
quent to the first Punic, they levied between
seven and eight bundled thousand troops,
but they acted in seperate corps One of the
largest mrries they ever brought into the
field IVA hat defeated, or rather destroyed,
at Came, by Hannibal 1t consisted of 76,-
600 foot and 8 900 horse, Of whom only about
5000 escaped death or capture. This defeat,
terrible as it was, was some years afterward
revenged by the slaughter of co. 900 Cartha
genians on the banks Of the Metaurus.
We shudder at the cruelties which some
times accompanied the tiiuniphs of Rome
over her more barbarous and undisc plined
enemies Scipio destroyed $4,000 Syrians at
Magnesia, Marius, in his contest with the
Teutones exterminated 100000 ofthem. In
second battle, against the Oimbii he slew
100000 men. In three battles against NTH
ridates, Sylla cut to pieces 100000 men. The
bloody defeats he sustained from Lucullus,
during the siege Of Cyzicus. cost the same
Mthridates, 100000 of his forces On one
occasion Julius Caosar.eut up an army of 368-,
900 Helvetti; on another he extirpated 43O,-
600 Germans who had crossed the Rhine in
quest of new settlements.
In the civil wars Of the Romans themselves
we find instances, considering the numbers
engaged, Of slaughter equally as dreadful
In the battle before the COlline gate at Rome,
Telesinus, general Of the Marion faction,
commanded 10 900 against Cornelius Sylla /;
10000 of these men were taken and massa-
cred in cold blood after the action. All the
rest perished either on the field or in the
fight by the swords of their implacable coun-
trymenplt y17riraI '.caatI 8if tI
In the year 1918, fatally distinguished as
being the epoch of the first irruption Of the
Moguls and Tartars into the southern prov
inces of Asia, the destroyer, Ghengis Khan,
marched to the siege of Otiar at the head Of
100000 combatants. Mohammed, the reign
ing Sultan of Karazm, opposed him with an
army 100000 strong The weaker party was
QeIGdJ6Q, anu bUe IdlIeE CObQu6IUF COln-
menced his sanguinary career by the destrue-
ton 10000 Of his enemies, al. .... t...
At 10 storming of Karazm, Mohammeds
capt. q, 100000 persons were massacred, and
half that number sold for slaves 10000
were shot to death with arrows in cold blood
on the plains of Mesa; l,747,00 were butch
cred in the two cities of Noshabur and Tus,
and their dependencies 100000 in the
district of Herat, and in the last battle fought
by Ghengis Khan against the Rebels ofTar-
gat, 100000 are reported to have perished.
To dismiss this subject, the Chinese records
informs us that in the first fourteen years of
the Mogpl empire the number of persons
destroyed amounted to the dreadful total Of
eighteen millions.
,d But from the year 1900 down to the pres
ent century, have contending hosts been less
bloody in their conquests, and more gene
rous in their disputes, and the battles Of the
present age, as regards humanity, are favor
ably marked in comparison with those re-
voting contests and conquests of ancient
times. iW U iaI