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Show Loaaea In Famoua Battles. In the famoua battle of Budan, when tho French were overpowered by the Prussians, the opposing armies were not quite on an equality aa regarda numbera. The French had 124.000 men In tha field, and their enemy had 190,000. Yet the losses were respectively re-spectively 38,000 and D.000, yielding perrentugea of 31 and t. In the bat tie nf 1-elpslc between the Oormana and allies aKalnst tho French and allies, al-lies, the strength of the former waa 31)0,000 and that of the other 171.000. The losBea of Ihe ritronger aide were It per cent, and that of the weaker 36. |