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British and German wounded, Bernafay Wood, 19 July 1916. Photo by Ernest Brooks.. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [1] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.
The Latvian Riflemen (Latvian: Latviešu strēlnieki; Russian: Латышские стрелки, romanized: Latyshskie strelki) were originally a military formation of the Imperial Russian Army assembled starting 1915 in Latvia in order to defend Baltic governorates against the German Empire in World War I. Initially, the battalions were ...
Name of Soldiers Who Died in the Defense of the American Union Interred in New York, Illinois, Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, and the territories of Colorado and Utah Vol 13-15 published 1867 [Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union, Interred in the National [and Other] Cemeteries; Volume No. 16]
The Indian Army, also called the British Indian Army, was involved in World War I as part of the British Empire. More than one million Indian troops served overseas, of whom more than 60,000 died during the war. [1] In World War I the Indian Army fought against the German Empire on the Western Front.
American Civil War: 17,300 [66] –17,962 [299] Battle of Richmond: 1862 American Civil War: 5,900+ Battle of Gaines' Mill: 1863 American Civil War: 15,000+ Battle of Gettysburg: 1863 American Civil War: 51,000 [300] [301] Battle of Salem Church: 1863 American Civil War: 9,500+ Battle of Chickamauga: 1863 American Civil War: 34,624 [302] Battle ...
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the ...
His list included 7,193 people who died from atrocities perpetrated by those of European descent, and 9,156 people who died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans. [ 5 ] In An American Genocide, The United States and the California Catastrophe, 1846–1873 , historian Benjamin Madley recorded the numbers of killings of California ...
A mass grave being dug for frozen bodies from the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, in which the U.S. Army killed 150 Lakota people, marking the end of the American Indian Wars. During the American Indian Wars, the American Army carried out a number of massacres and forced relocations of indigenous peoples that are sometimes considered genocide. [188]