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Show Kuropean War? of the Faat. The numbers enlisted in the present war, by the way, are curiously suggestive suggest-ive of the fact that the world is getting no better fast when compared with the numbers engaged in former European Euro-pean wars. At Marengo (1S00) there were 28,-000 28,-000 French and 30,000 Austrians; 13,-000 13,-000 killed or wounded. At Austerlitz, 90,000 French, 80,000 Austrians and llussians ; 23,000 killed or wounded. . At Jena, 100,000 French, 100,000 Prussians; 34,000 killed or wounded. At Wigiam, 150,000 French, 130,-000 130,-000 Austrians ; 24,000 killed or wounded. wound-ed. At Borodino, 125,000 French, 125,-000 125,-000 Russians ; 80,000 killed or wounded. wound-ed. At Leipzig, 200,000 French, 280,000 allies ; 50,000 killed or wounded. At Waterloo, 70,000 French, 60,000 English ; 15,000 killed or wounded. At Solferino, 135,000 French and Sardinians, 130.000 Austrians ; 27,000 killed or wounded. At Konigsratz, 200,000 Prussians, 200,000 Austrians and Saxons ; 28,000 killed or wounded. In the present war there are already engaged 800,000 of which the majority by 50,000 or more are on the Prussian side. At this moment Prussia has very nearly a million available (armed) men, including garrisons, &c., and no doubt France can, under stress, get nearly the same number. But unquestionably un-questionably the late Prussian conquests have made Prussia a more round forty millions of population than France. A' Y. World. |