Show loss of life in great battles the waste of human life in the unsuccessful attack on the malakoff and redan appears to have been beca nearly as great though not quite as in m the average of them mos mog f itu ita modern e rn battles blore more than div five thousand of the th e assailants were killed and woun deda a vast p ro orti f 0 1 n when ihen we consider haw ysmall small comparatively the storming stormi rg column was 1 the french alone admit almit a loss of thirty thirty eight hundred men out ot or an attacking force of twenty give five thousand that is to say eveny every every eveny seventh man was ren rendered derid d incapable either elther by bi death or wounds there is indeed one on 6 m modern od er n 9 selee e i ge which was than this not actually tw however wever blit but when wilen the numbers engaged are com compare pareo with ita hose those who fell we wib allain to the second siege of Badaj badajoz oz in the peninsular war that famous spanish fortress was hive nive invested I 1 sted by wellington at the head of twenty two tho thousand lisand men met and finally cai car carried carrieri rieti by storm af after afier terone one of the most sanguinary assaults oil recard in the attack tack on the great bi bleach each alone not les than thirty eight hundred men fell yet badajoz badajos was a small place tiace the fort not nonbeing being boing larger perhaps than the malakoff and its tout lout works whoever I 1 would re realize alicea half the horrors of war should read N apier anier I 1 g ac account count of therall he fall fali of Bada oz marengo maren mareno p austerlitz wagram bagram leipsic dres den borodine borodino Bo and waterloo were among the i mot desperately contested battles first napoleon A marengo JM arengo arango the austrians Aust rians lost ten thousand more re than a third of their whole force while the grench trench lo steven thousand or about in the sama yama proportion A considerable portion of these thes were rs however bolever bo wever while at the redan and malakoff ma I 1 al ic ff but few prisoners were bakert at Agster austerlitz liti the french wench lost twelve thousand or nearly a sixt siki ilof liaf their entire force fonce but th allies lost thirty thousand or more than a thid agram the loss orl ort elther cither side wa eibi elii went five live thousand er ei about one seventh of boe hoe tildae enz engaged aged at leipsic the loss wax was forty three thousand on the the allies s out of nearly three hundred thousand in the field andai anda sixty thousand on the part nath of lh french out of one hundred abild anil seventy give five thousand at D eden the al ihei lost twenty five thousand or one sixth of their entire nu numbers bers while vb ile lle th the french lost but twelve thoi tenth teth at borodino borodine Bo the bloodiest battle of aa hitty fifty thousand fell on oil each side or a third athard of of hose bose in tle elle eile batti nattle at waterloo the F french reach lof lot fp forty ty thousia tho usiM n 1 or more than thin half but bi taip taIe a laree larea pr op orlton of these fell in the route 3 vet ret the english en A loit lost nearly neaily gwint twenty y thousand 0 almost d a thir third of thel their r entire tro troop opa it ia i stefi said in in discussing military affairs affair that battles batties batti ps have hove been too trifling to take into but if we consider not the actually killed and wounded but b the proportion which those numbers bear to a the he w whole hole hoie force we shall find that those actions thus scorned were aa d hot hotly contested ai oven the first farat napoleon 4 battles rr at eutaw springs for example in the war one third of both bath armies were it aft ft upon the field at Chipp ewain the wax war of 1812 near nearly one ore fiffe of the Britis british ll were disabled at L liln Liin gyls dys lone L nc the loss of 0 the americans was about one thiril hird and that hat of the british equally great at new orlean orleans wh ere tile the british attempted on a small er scale scalp tiie the tile same some rash ex which they have loit lort dinst been defeated in before the redan and ana macoit MaIa mala kofT fhe the he assailants lost two thousand met mei ont out of or their army of twelve thonsa thousand hid fid from these statistics it appears that battles in in be the open field are ane areene generally rally raily more bloody though not lot always than assaults of entrenched positions the reason reagon i ie that hat in the former case tire the army is usua asua usually 11 ena en angad a ead but in the latter only the storming column col cot the loss by those thosa actually occupied on lle ile lie the attack is iq always heavier however than the average loss of an army in the open 6 fild gid bild ad it would seem also that the allies in m heir their latr lat l r repulse suffered as severely as the english at it new orleans a defeat which has bas as always beer been one of the he most sai swi on 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