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Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom during World War I. Five-sixths of the island left to form the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland, in 1922. A total of 206,000 Irishmen served in the British forces during the war. [98] The number of Irish deaths in the British Army recorded by the registrar general was 27,405. [99]
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The Russian army's Vostok Battalion in South Ossetia during the Russo-Georgian War. Damaged building during the Russo-Ukrainian War, in Lysychansk, Ukraine on 4 August 2014. Battle of Bakhmut, 2023. 2001: 2001 insurgency in Macedonia; 2001–2003: Pankisi Gorge crisis; 2001–present: Abkhazia conflict. 2001: 2001 Kodori crisis; 2006: 2006 ...
410,000 civilians died due to military action 730,000 civilians died of war-related causes [16] Kingdom of Romania: 130,000 civilians died due to military action 200,000 civilians died of war-related causes [17] Austria-Hungary: 120,000 civilians died due to military action 467,000 civilians died of war-related causes [18
After the war, the German government claimed that approximately 763,000 German civilians died from starvation and disease during the war because of the Allied blockade. [29] An academic study done in 1928 put the death toll at 424,000. [30] Germany protested that the Allies had used starvation as a weapon of war. [31]
The deadliest day of the war was during the opening days of the conflict. The Imperial German war council had initiated the Schlieffen Plan which involved multiple armies flooding through the borders of Belgium and France. On August 22, 1914, during the Battle of the Frontiers, five separate French armies engaged the German invaders ...
Ottoman casualties of World War I were the civilian and military casualties sustained by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Almost 1.5% of the Ottoman population, or approximately 300,000 people of the Empire's 21 million population in 1914, [1] were estimated to have been killed during the war. Of the total 300,000 casualties ...