Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1870-10-29
IEEMAN S~LAUGHTER.
nc Losses Sustained in Some oI the
Great Battles Of the world.

comparative bloodshed of these and
fOrmer struggles, and suggested oSti-
mates Of the practical bearing ON the
question of the new weapons of war
fare. Whether ritled cannon, the
acknowledgements and matrailleuse, art
or are not, as the guillotine was alleged
to be, beneticient inventions, appears
to depend on these calculations. For
If ii should appear that, while war costs
no more men than formerly, ii is much
sooner over, and that this is i'm an APP
Preciable measure consequent upon
the use Of better or more effective wea-
pons, the affirmative of this proposition
must be accepted. WA concerns nom
cOmbatants as well as others, and the
shorter it is the better, of course, for all
industrial interests, If 100000 mcu
must be killed, it is better for thciN
country that they should be killed in a
month than in q year. ArecOguitiOn OF
the principle would seem in part to
have inspired the existing rru~,ian
military system. The accounts .hat
reach us the current strife are certainly
terrible and distressing. The detail. Of
mangled bodies, of " colored rags, Glued
together with blood and brain, and
piOned in fantastic shapes with i Is of
bone,n are sickening beyond measure.
1t is, however, Il debatable question,
granting that wal must still be, Nhcth-
er soldier is worse or for going through
a great danger for n short time, rather
than a considerable danger for n long
time. An examination OF some details
Of the loss of life, in past ard recent
battles, will assist the formation Of III
telligent opinion.
For the losses, as Well as thenumlarS
engaged in the battles Of antiquity, SIC
have but uncertain data, such history
as we possess asserts that at Marathon
100000 Greeks overthrow 5UD,OOU Per-
slams, and that 900,Ooo of the letter
were slain. This, of course, is the
Greek history, and not the PerSiau.-
At the taking of Jerusalem hy Titus
more than l,000,0OU are Oalip' 4 TO
have persisted. AT Naissl- when
Claudius defeated the GOths, + is said
100000 Of the latter Were Et ed. The
siege of Acre cost an cqug uuuUer of
Christian soldiers. Al . y uutl. of
Hastings 10000 Were Kill. -aNaSt pro-
portion of the number engaged The
famous struggle at i luockhuu was
One OF the most disas' Gus for .u.iaud
that ever occurred before IFS date ON
since, the total loss being $4,000. on one
half of King Eiward's whole army
AT Cressy the Ilnglish under the Black
NPrince killed nearly as many MS tleir
own number II the French, j., g., come.
whatsoyer 1900; and at Aglucourt
Henry Y. did even better, for, with only
500 mel, he is declared to have beat.
Ell 60,OO0, OF whom 10000 were killed
and l4,O1 taken prisoners. The e.
cords state AT Blenhcim the English
under MARLBOROUGH slew . 1000 Of thciI
adversalies, and took 1900 pri,uneg,.
AT FOntenoy, Where Marshal SAKE, at
the head OF the 'rench, defealg' the
English under the Nuke OF Cum ber-
lana, both sides cont sed to Il loss OF
about LOCO, All Ma Iaquet the Allies
los One-sixth OF thu whole force OF
5000 mel, md the FIl. h Ona-ffth of
theirs, Or 80, 90 The loss " the Nile.
mt Austerlitz W., &O,UVl-DuL bird OF
their VIII Ne array while rat .f the
French was 10000 -oup-sl "ntA o
theirs. OF The 100000 AustI.au~ al
Wagram, 1000 We're wounded n slain.
and Of the lS0, 600 Ereuo., 20 700. Al
BOrOdino, the aWtGl nrmber ol 400.
: VI. ans were put bUas ut rJJT'vt, be.
lhs lne-third of then WI lie army, anc
81 WI French or unc-1omth Of THEN e,
The Allied loss at LeipsiC was 5000
ont-,lXth of their amy, and that of the
rtuch, 45,0o0-ou nth. At Wa,
100, of the 1l0,O0o Allies, the los,
IS 26,W0, aud Of he 72,OOu French
NW, On more thau one,Lalf.
Ga the present. generation the greaI
'IOpeah bati''s may bl considered tC
9 beer SollerinO, kOuiggralz or Sa.
W a. Met no Sedan. At SolferinC
4 French and Italians had 152 OU
~ u, ana '1st Il ,0O0. or one-nintb. an,
u AuStrli rs had 100000, and LOST 20
q or once. nth Of their total force
~ 22U,0W Pa ssians al Sadowa, but o..
OF 0ne-t e%ntyNthird, ana Of In,
ON Aus. MS, $1,000, or ouc-sry,
A. were loet. The present c,tir AT,
that there Were 20o, O0D French in IN,
'et days luttles before Metz, anC
b. 5O,OW Of them We're DESTROYED
q = hat Of the 10000 Germans, 40.
''", or one Tn represent the losse,
Is difficult = yet % pronounce upol
ut number killed and wounded n
~ei"n, Il l. ~variously reckoned a
RON 700 TO 10000 men. The FrencI
l' We, made prisoners numbered
nD > JOO, the first instance of th,
N.T..N "a OF SO trge n body of troop,
e. me Romans ]capitulated 10 In,
mite at me Cludine Forks. II
OIL Am"riC1 civil war the most san
a. any uot : exhibit mortality Of tn,
san e relauN e proportions as the mos
bloody ~ The European Struggles
HS' lOb,oW'men- IS, 900 Federals an,
VWu Con'"derates-ure recorded /,
Ne bCen 'ugaged at Atietam. m
lOnal los = set down at l1.416. in,
)nfadera'e. at about 10000: the no
-rngate ,c.s thus being more fhon
rteT o.. The whole number of tn
oiibatGr;s. Nearly the same nml
49, VIII The same relative casual,ig.
i"'a se21 at the second Bull Rua. 4
tllysDlrg the national loss is recorde,
~ &3,l9U, and that of the Confederate
o. about $1,000. The numbers ON ,lcl
sac having been about equal, O .a,
200 each, more than one-third If th'
whole were missing Or DESTROYED at In,
end Of the battle. 1t is common
~ reckoned that the American ciyi
war cost, by death in acton. dis
ease and wounds, about 1890 able
bodied men, which is also the numbe
said to have been expended in the war
Of Napoleon