| Show SOME TERRIBLE WAR BILLS that of the united states govern ment heads the list in point of size the wars of napoleon in 13 years cost prance 1 writes wen dell dodge in lesliea our civil war expenditure of he federal government was near ly thirteen times as much a year as napoleons the franco german war cost france be bides an added war indemnity ot this same great war which lasted only days cost ger many tor an average fighting force of 1 men the other big european war of the past halt century the russo turkish war cost russia but she had two years fighting for her money the war in the tar east cost japan and russia not counting lost ships only toward the end had either side anything like a million men in the field italy s little war with turkey cost a day allowing tor mere 60 fight ing men and the doer war in which england s army averaged cost 1 in two and a halt years |
