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Swedish victory: War against Sigismund: Started by Charles IX in an attempt to depose Sigismund III. Continued by the Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611). Swedish victory: De la Gardie Campaign: Swedish intervention in the Polish–Russian War (1609–1618) Truce signed after the Battle of Klushino: Polish–Lithuanian victory: Polish–Swedish ...
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.
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
The Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611) was a continuation of struggle between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth over control of Livonia and Estonia, as well as the dispute over the Swedish throne between Charles IX of Sweden and Sigismund III of Poland. After skirmishes, sieges and battles often aborted by Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, a ...
The following is a list of published statistics for Polish casualties in World War II. Encyclopedia Britannica article "World Wars" (2010) Military-killed, died of wounds or in prison-123,718; wounded-236,606; prisoners or missing 420,760; civilian deaths due to war 5,675,000. Estimated total deaths 5,800,000.
The Polish resistance movement suffered 100,000 deaths. [25] The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000. [ 26 ] 10,124 Bulgarian [ 26 ] and 21,035 Romanian deaths [ 27 ] were documented with the Allies. 1,036 Finns died in the Lapland War [ 28 ] and 8,000 Czech partisans were killed in the Prague Uprising .
The Polish Armed Forces in the West fought under British command and numbered 195,000 in March 1944 and 165,000 at the end of that year, including about 20,000 personnel in the Polish Air Force and 3,000 in the Polish Navy. At the end of World War II, the Polish Armed Forces in the west numbered 195,000 and by July 1945 had increased to 228,000 ...
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.