Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — The Great Wars. [ARTICLE]

The Great Wars.

Statistics of some of the great wars ol the past are reported to be, as follows: The Crimean war cost $2,000,000,000 and 750,000 lives; the Italian war of 1859, $300,000,000 and 45,000 lives; the war for Southern independence cost the North $5,100,000,000, and the South $2,300,000,000, and together about 830,000 lives; the Prusso-Austrian war of 1866 cost $333,000,000 and 45,000 lives; the Russo-Turkish war $125,000,000 and 250,000 lives; and the Franco-Prus-sian war, $4,100,000,000 and 196,000 lives.