Big Armies In Battle

Without doubt, of all the battles recorded in modern history, the lcngest and sternest, as well as the one in which most men were engaged, was the memorable battle of Leipsic, October 16, 18, 19, 1813, called by the üermans the battle of the nations. The number of trooos enrasred ia variously stated by different writers at from 130,000 to 190,000 on the side of Napoleon I, and from 230,000 to 290,000 on that of the allies under Prince Schwartzenburg-, Blucher and Bernadotte. In this awful battle the slain on both sides amounted to 80,000, and thousands of the wounded lay for days around the city. Iu the battle of Konig-gratz, or Sadowa, July 3, 1866, fought during the"Seven weeks' war," the allied Austrian and Saxon troops engaged amounted to about 200,000 men, while the Prussians, under their king mustered in round numbers 260,000 combatants. The total loss of the Austrians, etc, amounted to about 40,000 men while that of ths Prussians was 10,000. If we go back to the melee of ancient days, wa find it stated that at the one foujr'it at Tours in 732 between the Franks and the Saracens, from 350,000 to 375,000 men were killed on the field. This would, of course, mean that many more men were engaged than at Leipsic. In a battle metttioned in Cnroaicles II, tetween As, king of Judah, and Rerah, king of Ethiopia, we are told Ihat the former had an army of a thousand thousand, or 1,000,000. Canon Rawlinson observes tiidt this statement does not exceed the numbers of other oriental armies. Darius Codomannus brought into the field a torce of 1,040,000 men near Arbela, Where he was finally defeated by Alexander theGreat 331 B. C. Xerxes, too, Professor Rawlinson says, crossed Into Greece with cartainly above 1,000,000 combatants, and Artaxerxes Mnemon collected 1,960.000 men to meet the attack of the younger Cyras.