Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1904 — Men Killed in War. [ARTICLE]

Men Killed in War.

A French statistician, Dr. Charles Ricket, has arrived at the following estimate of the number of men who died In the wars carried on by the various Christian nations during the last century. The total reaches to the figure of 14,600,000. It Is made up as follows: Napoleonic wars, 8,000,000; Crimean war, 800,000; Italian war, 80,000; American civil war, 600,000; Franco-German war, 800,000; RussoTurklsh war, 400,000; civil wars In South America, 600,000; various colonial expeditions in India, Algeria, Mexico, Tonquln, Abyssinia, South Africa and Madagascar, 8,000,000.