The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-07-13
Ancient wars

| modern aud ancient military events will be
astonished possibly, when wo assert that
Notwithstanding the great armies which
opposed each othor upon sanguinary fields
duriug the esprogrops Of tho rebellion, they
were but small bodies OF inen, compared
with llIe irnmcnse arGnicsdi ahcicnt times
l. Iiidaed, the armies which we are assured
by history have been brought forth to battle
in tile earlier ages alnoNt stagger our DO.
lief. '' 'lg5 MtI taH
Sesosiria is said to have lei 100000 foot,
2I 200 horse aud $1,000 armed chariOts on
| his Gimons expedition into Upper Asia. sf.-
We are told ia Scripture that Zoriah,
harbarous potentate. invaded the Kingdom
of Judah with a million of his subjects, who
were totally disseminated by the Jewish
Monarch, Asa. Nor are the accounts of the
numbers engaged at Mount Zemaram, OF
bothsdes, and tho carnage Of the Israelites,
less marvellous.
- Xarxes invaded Greece with feet Of
mo e tian |, 800 trienues and land army
of 2, 100, 900 men. according TO Herodotus,
the whole 81 his nea and lallj forces num-
bered above five millions.
Tho last Darius. when he engaged Alex
ander at lssus, musiered IN his army $780,
600, and some historians make his forces
at the battle Of Arbela amount 10 o million.
The ease with which theoe immense hosts
wero dcteated by comparatively tTilmg
numbers Of Greeks, gives us the meahest
idea OF their bravery and military skill.
We must except tho instances Of Pat@,
where the victoryw was obstinately disputed,
and, the carnage consequently drehdfuL
There are few instances on record OF a bat.
tie 20 completely decisive. OF 100000 men,
of whom the Persian army coueisted at the
commencement of tho action, uot four thous.
and escaped the destruction of that fatal
day ,sq ,I.Irye- -4u-putitul
Tho Romans, although they sometimes
kept very numerous forces on foot in differ.
cnt parts Of their dominions, seldom EN-
/ ployed above forty thousand men in the
same army. In their war with tho GaulH
subsequent to the first Punic, they levied
between seven and eight hundred thousand
troops, but they acted in separate corps
, One OF the largest armies they ever brought
into tho field Was that Defeated, orlrathe'
destroyed, at Gamma by Hannibal. 1t con
sisted Of $4,000 foot and 1000 horse
/ OF whom only about 3000 escaped dealt
a o. capture. This defeat, terrible as il was
r was so,ne years afterwards revengeC
J. by the slaughter of 10000 Oarthagcnian
n on tile banks OF tho Metaurus.
y We shuddcr at the cruelties which some
/ times accompatiied the, triumphs OF Rom
a over her more barbarous aid undiscipline,
q enemies, Soipio destroyed 10000 Syrian
!. at Maguesia.h Marus, in his contest wit
h the Teutoues, oxterminated 100000 OF then
n In second battle, against the Oimbri, h
!. tlow 100000 men. In three battles, aguiuS
Il Milhridates, Sylla cut to. pieces 10000
;. men. The bloody defeats he sustaine
h from Lucullus, during the slege of Oyzicu
j. cost tho same Mithridates 100000 of h
forces. On one occasion julius Caesar oI
y up an army Of 36S, 900 ilelvetti on ahoth'
I he oktirpnted 100000 GermAns who ha
a crossed the Rhiae ihiquoat'of new settl
IA ments.
la the civil wars of the Romans ther
selves we lind instances cohsidering tn
numbers of troops engaged, Of slaugl,t
- equally dreadful, In tue battle before I'll
Cpilno SatS Of Rene rSSsHqSSasa GspsE sgl
= :. men against Borneius Sylla; l200O
y these were taken aud mnssacrod ~ co
- = blood after tho action. All the rest pc
~ =" ished either on the field or IN tho hght
az the swords OF their impaoable countryme
D! In the year 1918, fatally distinguished
w being the epoch of the first irruption OF q
lo' Moruls aud Tartars into tho southern pro
~, inces Of Asia, the destroyer, Ghensis.khd
~ marched to tho siege OF Otiar at the no
~. ~ of 7O9, 900 conlbAtants. Mohammed, \
We roigting Sultan Of Karazm, opposed n
" with an army of 400, 900 strong. saa.
y" ~ The weaker party was defeated, aud .
~ Tartar conqueror commenced his sangn
'o' a,y career by tho destruction OF laoV
~ OF his enemies. Al the storming OF kara'
ls Mohamlned's capital, 100000 persons W
NC raasnaored and half that number sold
'a ' slaves 10000 were shot to death with
Ae' rows in cold blood on the plains OF Me-
l,T47 900 were hut1hered in tho two cll
OF Noshabnr aud Tus, and their depend
/. oies; .60O.00O in the district OF llerat,
my in the last battle fought by Ghengh's,k
ties against the reLols OF rSrgAt 100000
reported to have perisheds To d'su
In,o this subject, the Chinese records inform
that in the first fourteen years OF the Mo
q, Empire the number of porsons dsstro
r.s, amounted TO tho dreadful total OF oigh'
millions, ..... ..r.,g.L
lho Bat from tie year 1900 down 70 the ?
mali cnt country have eontendlng hosts
I'.oa. less bloody in their oonQuesIs, ana n
aad generous in their disputes, aud the ba
OF tho present age, as regards hnmS
ood ayo favogably marked, IN comparison
1,as those revolving contests aud oonqHe"
hem, Quo" H"'s' -
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