| Show in famous battles in the famous battle of sedan when the french were overpowered by the prussians the opposing armies were not quite on an equality as regards numbers the french had men in the field and their enemy had yet the losses were re 38 and 9 yielding percentages of 31 and 5 in the bat tie of leipsic between the germans and allies against the french and al lies the strength of the former was and that of the other the losses of the stronger side were 16 per cent and that of the weaker 36 |