Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-05-07
of them approaching in cost and fatal.

the Greciau war of 1820-21, the
French, Belgian and Poland revolts oi
1880, the British Chinese opium war Of
1S40.42, when Britain went to war be.
cause Sin, the great mogul of China
demanded the right of the Chinese to
seize opium from the subjects of Great
Britain without pay, the Mexican wal
of 1916, the Afghanistan wars of 1916
70 and 1880, the French revolution oi
1S4S, the Crimean war, the Italian
trouble of 1859, the scrap between
Prussia and Austria against Denmark
in 1864, and Russo Turkish war OF
1875 and the almost continual wars OF
Spain with her colonies and at home.
War, unfortunately, means battle,
and battle means death, and compar-
isen of the number killed and injured
in the wars of the century would seem
to show that, with all the improve
ments in arms, the death list has not
greatly increased. Aside from Gettys-
burg, Antietam and Metz, the princi-
pal losses in the leading battles have
been as follows:
Jena, 18O6-Prussian loss, 21,00O
out of 100000; French loss, $4,000
out of 10000.
Battle of Eylan, 1S07-Russian loss,
25, 900 out of $4,000 engaged. French
loss, 10000 out of IS, 900 engaged.
Wagram, 1SO9-Austrian loss, 25,-
| O0O ont of 1O0 600. French loss, %, 900,
with the same number engaged.
Aspern, May 21-22, 1S09-Napole.
on's first defeat. The Little Corporal
lost $4,000 out of an army of 10000,
while the ,Austrians lost 10000 out OF
force of $4,000, Napoleon's loss being
quite so per cent. of his army.
Borodius- Moscow-French lost 50,-
900 out of $4,000, and the Russians
As, 900 out of 1856, 900.
Koniggratz, 1S66-End of the Prus-
so-Austrian war. About 400, 1000 men
were engaged altogether, and in this
battle Austria lost 10000, while Prus-
sia lost but one-quarter as many.
The battle of Leipsig was fearfully
fatal to French arms, as out of 100, ,OOO
men they lost fully 10000, while the
allies lost but $4,000 out of an army
of 2SS, 900.
At Waterloo, last fateful act in the
real drama of Napoleon's life, the
French lost 10000 out of splendid
army of $4,000, very nearly one-half
while the loss to the allies was $4,000
out of $4,000. This was the most de-
structive of any appearing on the
record, as the loss on both sides was
over 33 per cent.
At Sedan, before the terrible fire oi
the German guns, 10000 Frenchmen
out of an army of $50, 900 were killed
while the German loss in killed and
wounded was but 1881, and this out
of an army of 250,OOO.
THE GALLANT ARMSTRONG.
1t is more than interesting to recall
the fact that America owes its success
in the battle of New Orleans not alone
to General Jackson's bravery, behind
the cotton bales at the Crescent City
but to little insignificant naval en-
gagement which took place in the very
waters near which Americas squadron
is now lowering. Early in 1872 Lord
Castlereagh, then premier, conceived
the brilliant scheme of making con-
quest of Louisiana, and by so doing
grab all the territory west Of the Mis-
sissippi river. His plan was to make
a feint at Washington and Baltimore
with the fleet under Admiral Cochran,
thus drawing the attention of the gov
ernment, and then to withdraw that
feet and have it combine with the
transports and fleet under Commodore
LLOYD, both of which had been direct
ed to rendezvous at Negril Bay, ia
maica. The demonstration against
Washington and Baltimore was a suc'
cess. as was shown by the burning of
the Capitol and the hurried moving,
between two days, of the government
headquarters to York, Pa. After this
Admiral Cochran withdrew his ships
in good order to the West Indies. Ar
irving there with his fleet, he found the
private armed brig General Armstrong.
Cochran had in his feet 1876 guns,
while the Armstrong boasted hut sew
en-. Three engagements took place
within "a hours, in which the British
lost 2lO killed and 140 wounded, while
the Armstrong, which was practically
destroyed, had but two killed and
seven wounded. Such great damage,
however, had the Armstrong; guns
inflicted on the British fleet that l6
days were required to put the fleet in
readiness to sail. This gave General
Jackson time enough to reach New Or
leans, and he arrived only four days
before the famous engagement, to
throw up the hasty embankments and
to drive Lord Pakenham and his army
from United States soil. One brig for
ever against fleet; but it was enough.
SESSIONS OF CONGRESS.
There has been a mistaken impress
sion in many minds as to the proba.
biity of very long session of con-
gress rendered necessary by the war,
but history shows that the opposite is
likely to be true. 1t is hardy necessa-
ry to take into account the sessions