Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-04-21
STATISTICS OF WARS.
WHAT " COSTS TO MAINTAIN THE
ARMIES OF EUROPE.

NhmlES OF EUhOPE.
In Times of War Their Daily Expense VIII
he Nearly $40. 900, ooo-c Cost of worlds
Vans Since Crimean War Has Been
e13, ret. 600. OoO-Size of Armies.
1t is estimated that since the Chris
tinn era began over 1900, 900, 600 hu-
man beings have persisted in war. The
cost of the worlds wars since the Cri-
mean war has been sla, 26s, 900, 900, or
enough to give $40 goldpiece to every
ian, woman and child on the globe.
turing the most peaceful years the
orld has 100000 men who are
withdrawn from productive occupations
to pose as soldiers. The pay, equip
ments, food and clothing of these men
cost the worlds taxpayers nearly S.
900, 600 day. The cost of our navy
during the civil war was: For 1862,
SAG, 900, 900; 1868, 1868, 900, 900; 1864,
$S5, 900, 900; 1865, $122, 900, 900.
During the civil war the Confederate
cruisers captured or destroyed so ships,
46 brigs, 60 schooners and s other ves-
sells flying the American flag The num-
Der of men withdrawn from industry to
take part in the civil war on the Union
aide was 2,772, 46s, while the Confed-
crates enlisted over 600, 900. The ex-
pense of the war department in 1869
was 1894, 900, 900; in 1868, $500, 900, :
600; in 1864, 5000, 600, 600, and in
1855, s1,031, 600, 900.
In times of war the armies of Eu-
ropean nations can be raised to o, 1885,
900 men, and the daily expense will be
nearly $40, 900, 900, to say nothing of
he destruction of life and property.
During the last few months Of the civil
war the expense of the government ex-
seeded 50, 10000 day. The destruc-
sion of stores and clothing by both
armies during the civil war is estimated
at 800, 000,0 In 1851 English ships
brought to the bone factories of Eng
land so, 900 skeletons of Turkish and
Russian soldiers who had persisted in
the Orimean war. They were to be
utilized as fertilizing material, after
being ground to powder in the mills.
All the wars of Napoleon Bonaparte
cost 1875, 900, 600, while the wars of
Louis Napoleon cost France $2,210,-
600, 600 The former made the enemy
pay most of the expense; the expense OF
the wars waged by the latter was borne
by France.
During the civil war in the United
States, from 1851 to 1865, the Union
ordnance department served ont to the
army 1889 cannon, 4,022, 900 rifles,
1850, 900 equipments for foot and horse,
$4,000 tons of powder, az, 900 tons OF
shot and 1,022, 900, 900 cartridges.
The soldier is the best fed individual
of his class in Europe. The British sol.
der receives for his daily ration 1f
ounces of bread. 10 of meat, of rice, s
Of dried vegetables. 16 of potatoes, and
once week he receives ounces of salt,
of coffee and of sugar. In time oi
war France puts $40 out of every ], O0C
of her population in the field, Germany
80, Russia 2l0. Tho krupp steel 13(
ton gun has a range of 10 miles, ant
can fire two shots a minute. The sho
weighs 1890 pounds and ZOO pounds O
powder are required for charge. TIL,
cost of single round from this gun il
$1,000. and it is said that the gun can
not be fred more than 90 or 60 times
The cost of the piece is $475, 900.
The regular army Of China is said {,
consist of 1928, 600. Besides this, tn
emperor's army, there is nationa
army of 100000 men, who are pal,
about 81 month, but in consideration
of this muni1icence are required to fee,
themselves. The cavalry receives So
month, feed their own horses, and,
they are lost or killed, are required t.
replace them out of the pay given b,
the government.
The largest standing army is that @
Russia, 800, 600 men; the next in siz
that of Germany, 500, 600; the thir
that of France, 300, 900; the fourth
Austria, 1913, after which com
Italy, with 235, 600; England, wit
10000; Turkey, with 100, 600; Spain
with 100000. Little Switzerland ha
an enormous army in proportion to poi
ulation. The population is 2,900, 00(
the standing army, 10000 Owe
100000 Frenchwomen were mad
widows and 5000, 900 French childre
fatherless by Napoleon's campaigns.
proportion to the numbers engaged
Waterloo was the bloodiest battle {
modern times. Over 35 per cent of til
men engaged were killed or wounded. :
Boston Herald.