The Wars Of This Century
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Title
The Wars Of This Century
Subject
War
Creator
[Unknown]
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
April 1877
Contributor
Josh Dobbs, Jenna Zan
Rights
Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Article
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.6 (April 1877), p.8
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The wars of this century have been the most bloody and costly since the palmy days of Rome and Greece. For its ten great bloody period, viz. the Napoleonic, Grecian, Crimean, Italian, Danish, Austrian (1866), Brazilian, American, Abyssinian, and France-German wars-leaving out minor expeditions and skirmishes-the figures foot up $38,976,600,000 expended, and 11,708,600 men destroyed from 1800 to 1871. Two-thirds of this aggregate outlay of men and money are to be charged on the ledger to Napoleon I. up to his closing battle fought at Waterloo.