The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-12

continual wars Of Spain with her col
onies and at home.
War, unfortunately, means battle,
and battles mean death, and COM
parison of the number killed an injured
in the wars of the century would
seem to show that, with all the i'm
prOveGents in arms, the death list
has not greatly increased. Aside from
Gettysburg, Antietam and Metz, the
principal losses in the leading battles
have been as follows:
Jena lSO6-Prusslan loss, 21,000 out
of 100000; French loss, $4,000 out Of
10000.
Battle of Eylan, 1S07-Russian loss,
$4,000 out of $4,000 engaged; French
loss, 10000 out Of $4,000 engaged.
Wagram, 1SO9-Austrian loss, 25,OOO
out of 100000; French loss, $4,000, with
the same number engaged.
Aspern, May 2l-22, 1S09-Napoleon's S
first defeat. The Little Corporal lost
$4,000 out of an army of 10000, while
the Austrians lost 10000 out of n force
of SO,OOO Napoleon's loss being quite
80 per cent. of his army.
Borodus- Moscow-FrenCh lost $4,000
out of 1872 000 and the Russians $4,000
out of l35, 900.
Koniggratz, lS66-End of the Prusso-
Austrian war. About 100000 men We're
engaged altogether, and in this battle
Austria lost 10000, while Prussia lost
but One-quarter as many.
The battle Of Leipsig was fearfully
fatal to French arms, as out of 100000
men they lost fully GO,OG0 while the
allies lost but $1,000 out of an army of
2SS 600.
At Waterloo, last fateful act in the
real drama of Napoleons life, the
French lost 10000 out of a splendid
army of $1,000, very nearly one-half,
while the loss to the allies was but
90 900 out Of $4,000. This was the most
destructive Of any appearing on the
record, as the loss on both sides was
over SO per cent,
At Sedan, before the terrible fire
of the German guns, 10000 Frenchmen
out Of an army of 10000 We're killed,
while the German loss in killed and
wounded was but S,93l, and this out of
an army of 100000.
THE GALLANT ARMSTRONG.
1t is more than interesting to recall
the fact that America owes its sue
cess i'm the battle of New orleans not
! alone to General JaCksOn's bravery,
! behind the cotton bales at the Crescent
| city, but to "A little insignificant naval
| engagement which took place in the
very waters near which America 5
| squadron was lowering, Early i'm 1872
| Lord Castlereagh, then Premier, con-
| Ceived the brilliant scheme of making
| a conquest Of Louisiana, and by so do
| ing grab all the territory west of the
Mississippi river. His plan was tO
make a feint at Washington and
| Baltimore with the fleet under
Admiral Cochran, thus drawing
| the attention of the govern
ment, and then to withdraw that
| fleet and have It combine with the
| transports ana fleet under Commodore
| Lloyd, both of which had been direct
| ed TO rendezvous at Negril Bay, Jamai-
| ca, The demonstration against Wash
| ington and Baltimore was a success, as
| was shown by the burning of the capt
! tOl and the hurried moving, between
| two days of the government headquar-
ters to York, Pa, After this Admiral
| Cochran withdrew his ships i'm good
order TO the West Indies. Arriving
there with his fleet, he found the pri-
vate armed brig Gen, Armstrong;
| Cochran had in his fleet 1856 guns, while
| the Armstrong boasted but seven
! Three engagements took place within
twenty-four hours, in which the Brit
| ish lost 2l0 killed and 40 wounded
while the Armstrong. which was prac-
tically destroyed, had but two killed
and seven wounded. Such great dam
age, however had the Armstrong