The Dickinson press., 1894-04-07
BLOODY BATTLES OF EUROPE.
At Zorndorf the Loss of Life Includ.
ed About One.Half the Content

At ZOFndOrf the Loss OF Lie AnC1U0s
ed About One.Half the Content
ants.
Linear tactics and fre-locks contri.
buted more lavishly to the death-roll
than the administers and breechloaders
of modern times. says the Saturday Re-
view. At Blenheim England lost some
% per cent and her enemies about the
same number At Mollwitz the Prus.
slams lost 1S per cent, the Austrians %
per cent. At KOlin Frederick's force
suffered to the extent of 81 per cent,
while the victory cost his enemies only
IA per cent. At Zorndorf, the bloodiest
battle of which we have any record
that we may rely upon, the proportion
of loss to the total forces engaged rose
to the enormous total Of from One-half
to one-third. Kunersdorf was almost
as destructive to human life, and Fred
erick lost 35 per cent against 26 per
cent OF the allies, With the advent of
Napoleon and tho loosened formations
of the revolutionary armies, losses wero
at first diminished, but at Aspern the
Austrians left nearly % per cent Of
their men on the battlefield and the
French, although the bulletins denied 1t,
are said to have been weaker by one
half after the battle. Borodino, too, de-
prived the Russians Of SO per cent and
the French of 25 per cent. During the
NapOleOnic wars we find the losses low
er, although after Ligny the Prussians
were weaker by as many as 20 per cent,
and the victory Of Waterloo cost Eng
land rather more than that proportion:
When, however, we turn to the CAM
paigns which succeeded the lull Of ex,
haustion following the downfall of the
first empire, we are confronted with no
such bloody records, In spite Of the In.
ventiOn of percussion caps, rifles, and
even rifed cannon. The allies at the
Alma only lost some per cent and the
Russians IA per cent. 1nkerman, how
ever, was as bloody as Waterloo, but
it was struggle In which tactics play
ed q very small part. The losses at
Magenta and Solferino were compara-
lively slight. Although the conse-
quences of Koniggratz were immense,
they were cheaply purchased by the vic
tors; while in 1870, Notwithstanding
that both sides were armed with breech
leaders, the losses never approached
the huge totals of some Of the battles OF
the early century or Of those Of the sew.
en- years war. At Worth, 1t Is true,
One.sixth Of the total forces engaged
were either killed or wounded; but al
Gravelotte the proportion was only one.
eleventh. and at Weissenburg one
twelfth.
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