Show MORTALITY MORTALITY DURING BATTLE I The mortality during a battle Is surprisingly sur I low In fact according to the military proverb It takes a ton ot of shot to kill a man At the siege of Gibraltar heavy shot and shell w were were ie thrown Into the garrison during the ten months' months attack but only 1341 persons were killed and wounded most of the Injuries ries rles being very slight At Salamanca Salaman Salaman- ca only one shot of every took effect ef et- effect and at itt Waterloo the fire of one side of a British square squar emptied no nomore nomore nomore more than three ee or four saddles in a squadron of ot French French cavalry It has been estimated that In the Crimean war the British troops fired shots and killed Russians Russians Rus Rus- scans or one death to every shots Th The French fired shots and killed Russians or one death to every shots while the Russians fired shots and killed of ot the allies ames or one death to every shots When the Germans besieged Me Me- In 1870 prof projectiles were thrown Into Inte the town town- but only pers persons ns were killed or one for tor every shot and shell sheH At Trouville two people were killed by shells or one person for tor every and andt at t shells were fired and did not kill a single person In battle thero there Is not much time to aim and military authorities now regard regard regard re re- gard rapidity of fire as s being more essential than range and precision At the Alma where Russians French and British were engaged the French lost 40 the Russians 47 and the English 7 75 per 1000 soldiers The Russian loss loss loss' at at Inkerman was very heavy being per 1000 while the English lost 37 and the French only 5 6 per 1000 combatants The British Brit Brit- British ish loss at Waterloo was 48 per 1000 In fact wherever Britons fight t they ey kill or are themselves killed in large lare numbers At the e famous battle of Sedan only nine per 1000 Germans engaged were killed while the French loss was 24 per 1000 fighters At Spicheren in inthe inthe inthe the same war the French lost 16 and the Germans 29 per 1000 while at Gravelotte both French and Germans had nine per 1000 killed |