The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-12

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 both sides. while in the battles of the
 Wilderness. where fought the largest number Of men in the war, the Con- federates numbered only sixty-two thousand, while Grant had one. hum dred and twenty thousand, a total less than half the number believed to have fought at Liao-Yang. The rebel loss
 exceeded fifteen thousand, and that of the Union forces was over eighteen
 thousand. Unlike the other battles mentioned, 1t was a drawn fight, both forces leaving the field soon after to light at Spottsylyariia. Sherman, in his
 march to the sea, had little more than
 seventy-ive thousand men with him.
 In the Napoleonic, era, although the
 armies were larger than those of the
 previous century, and far greater than
 In the civil war, the numbers were com
 paratively small. At Austerlitz, the
 most famous of the earlier victories of
 Napoleon. the French had only seventy
 thousand, while the Russian and Aus
 trian force did not exceed eighty-five
 thousand, thirty-five thousand of whom
 were killed, wounded or captured in the
 struggle. The French lost less than a
 quarter of the number. At Wagrarn
 NapoIeon had one hundred and sixty
 thousand, his allied opponents only one
 hundred and ten thousand. and al-
 though the French prevailed, the losses on either side were about thirty thou
 sand. At Borodino, the bloodiest bat
 tie of the nineteenth century, one hun
 dred and twenty-five thousand French
 defeated one hundred and thirty-two
 thousand Russians, the former losing
 over twenty-five thousand, the latter fifty thousand. Waterloo, although the most decisive battle of the last century,
 was fought for the larger part of the day between seventy-two thousand French under Napoleon, and sixty-six thousand British, Belgians and Dutch under Wellington. Late In the after noon Butcher brought up one division after another of his force, until over sixty thousand Prussians oined in the fight, and Napoleon's army was de- stroyed. The French lost thirty-two thousand men in this battle, the allies twenty-tWo thousand.
 In the eighteenth century the armies were smaller than those of Napoleons time. Frederick the Great seldom had beneath his standard force of more than thirty thousand men, At Rose bach, the most famous of the victories of the. great Prussian, he had less than twenty three thousand under his com mand, while his foes mustered more than sixty thousand The Prussian loss in the conflict was five hundred, while the Austrians lost twenty seven hundred killed and wounded, and more than five thousand captured. The wars of the age of Queen Anne, when the great Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene hunbled the pride of the aged Louis XIV, were on a larger scale than this, though insignificant when con trasted with those of the nineteenth century. Blenheiin, Malplauuet and Families, which were the most famous of these battles, were all fought be- tween less than one hundred and fifty thousand men. At Blenhein, the most decisive, Marlborough and Eugene had fifty-two thousand to oppose fifty-six thousand French under the ircompe- tent Tallard. The French were almost annihilated, losing thirty thousand in killed, wounded and captured, while the loss of the allies was only thirteen thousand New York Tribune.