What War Has Cost

When the revolution broke out Yanee's elfective army was only 120,000 men. For the wars waged during en years, in Belgium, on the Sambre, the Meuse, tne Riiine, the Alps, the Pyrenees, in the Vtndee and in Egypt there were called out 2,800,000. At the census made in the ninth year of the republic there rcmained of these only 677,598. In the killed and in dead by disease the wars of the first republis cost France 2,l2,402 men. Fronv 1801 to Waterloo, 3.157,318 men scaxcely sufflced to fill tUe blaDks, which in an incessant war agairst combined Europe, France incurred at Austerlitz, Jena, Auerstadt, Frledirod, Saragossa, Eckmuhl, Essling, Wargram, Taragona, Smolesk, Moscow, Lutze, Bautze, Dresden, Liepsig and Waterloo. Under the restoration, Lcuis Philippe and the second republic in spite of the war in Spain (1823), the conquest of Algiers (1830), and the taking of Antwerp, France passed through a comparativo calm. The army numbered about 213,748, and the mortality averaged 1-22 per 1,000. In 1855 cc-ro.Tienced the epoc of the great v ui - t e Crimea, Italy (1859), China (1860-fii), Mexico (1862-6), and the disasters of 1870. In the Crimea, out of 300,258 men, 95,615 succumbed; in Italy, out of 500,000 there died 18,673; in China, 9üO, and in Cochin China, 48 per 1,000. The second Empire cost France 1,600,000 soldiers. According to Dr. Langneau's demographic tables, the century from 1795 to 1895 witnessed the death in batt.le or fey disaster of 6,000,000 Frenc'a soldieri