Although mechanisation of the Army was considered as a means of avoiding the heavy casualties and indecisive nature of the offensives during the earlier years of the war, no strategic doctrine was evolved to match technical developments.

The British Army reported casualties of 116 dead, 368 wounded and nine missing.

The Eighth Army had suffered over 13, 000 casualties in July including 4, 000 in the New Zealand Division, 3, 000 in the Indian 5th Infantry Division and 2, 552 battle casualties in the 9th Australian Division ) but had taken 7, 000 prisoners and inflicted heavy damage on Axis men and machines.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1, 500 casualties, including 500 killed.

On August 1 members of the Kenyan Air Force launched an attempted coup, which was quickly suppressed by Loyalist forces led by the Army, the General Service Unit ( GSU ) — paramilitary wing of the police — and later the regular police, but not without civilian casualties.

Voroshilov commanded Soviet troops during the Winter War from November 1939 to January 1940, but, due to his poor planning and overall incompetence, the Red Army suffered about 185, 000 casualties.

Little Turtle | Mishikinakwa (" Little Turtle ")'s forces defeated an American force of nearly 1000 U. S Army soldiers and other casualties at the St. Clair's Defeat | Battle of the Wabash in 1791.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union ultimately resulted in 95 % of all German Army casualties from 1941 to 1944 and 65 % of all Allied military casualties accumulated throughout the war.

Romania suffered additional heavy casualties fighting the Nazi Army in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

Lincoln was also alarmed at the level of casualties, and queried Halleck as to Grant's potential responsibility for them ; Grant was criticized for his decision to keep the Union Army bivouacked rather than entrenched.

After taking the month of April 1864 to assemble and ready the Union Army of the Potomac, Grant crossed the Rapidan River on May 4 and attacked Lee in the Wilderness, a hard-fought battle with many casualties, lasting three days.

Greece Included in total are 11, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The Soviet demographer Boris Urlanis estimated total military dead of 26, 000 including 15, 000 deaths due to disease Jean Bujac in a campaign history of the Greek Army in World War I listed 8, 365 combat related deaths and 3, 255 missing Other estimates of Greek casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: Killed / died wounds 5, 000 ; prisoners and missing 1, 000.

The 1922 War Office report detailed the casualties of " soldiers who lost their lives ", " killed in action, died as prisoners, died of wounds and missing " from the Regular and Territorial Forces and Royal Naval Division: 702, 410 from the UK, 507 from " other colonies " and 2, 393 British serving in the Indian Empire Army.

* December 13 – Battle of Fredericksburg: The U. S. Army suffers massive casualties and abandons its attempts to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia.

* December 26 – 29 – American Civil War – Battle of Chickasaw Bayou: Another victory for the Confederate Army, outnumbered two to one, results in six times as many Union casualties, defeating several assaults commanded by the Union general, William T. Sherman.

The casualties reported by the Romanian Army during those seven days consisted of 356 officers and 42, 876 soldiers dead or missing.

In October and November, the Third Army was mired in a near-stalemate with the Germans, with heavy casualties on both sides.

The Hürtgen Forest cost the U. S. 1st Army at least 33, 000 killed and incapacitated, including both combat and noncombat losses ; German casualties were 28, 000.

The 1st and 9th U. S. Army — 57, 039 battle casualties ( dead, wounded, captured, missing in action ); 71, 654 non-battle casualties, i. e. accidents, diseases such as pneumonia, trench foot, frostbite, and trauma.

The U. S. Army ′ s Center of Military History has estimated that 120, 000 troops, plus replacements, were committed to Hürtgen ; by the end, there had been 23, 000 battle casualties plus 9, 000 non-battle.

In a breakdown of the casualties, Frossard's II Corps of the Army of the Rhine suffered 621 casualties while inflicting 4, 300 casualties on the Prussian First Army under Steinmetz before the Pointe du Jour.

The corps took heavy casualties, and it ( along with Thomas L. Crittenden's XXI Corps ), became consolidated into the new IV Corps ( Cumberland ).

On the 2nd, it hit Cumberland Island, Georgia and northeast Florida with 135 mph ( 217 km / h ) winds, causing heavy damage amounting to around $ 2. 5 million, and 179 casualties.

There were no `` casualties '', but the `` guerrillas '' admitted to being `` a little tired '' when the leaders called a halt at 9 A.M. to enable out-of-town members to catch a plane.

As the battle progressed, Zollicoffer was killed, Crittenden was unable to lead the Confederate force since he was probably intoxicated and the Confederates were turned back and routed by a Union bayonet charge, suffering 533 casualties from their force of 4, 000.

Union casualties were 500 killed, 2, 108 wounded, 224 missing.

Over the course of military history, projectiles were manufactured from a wide variety of materials, made in a wide variety of shapes, and used different means of inflicting physical damage and casualties to defeat specific types of targets.

There were many more Somali casualties.

The rest of Marlborough's army, waiting in their ranks on the forward slope, were also forced to bear the cannonade from the French artillery, suffering 2, 000 casualties before the attack could even be begun.

Although the blazes were extinguished, the ship had suffered over 200 casualties.

British casualties in the battle were recorded with some accuracy in the immediate aftermath as 218 killed and approximately 677 wounded, although the number of wounded who subsequently died is not known.

The ships that suffered most were Bellerophon with 201 casualties and Majestic with 193, while other than Culloden the lightest loss was on Zealous, which had one man killed and seven wounded.

French casualties are harder to calculate but were significantly higher.

The Serbs and the Greeks had a military advantage on the eve of the war because their armies confronted comparatively weak Ottoman forces in the First Balkan War and suffered relatively light casualties while the Bulgarians were involved in heavy fighting in Thrace.

Between 46, 000 and 51, 000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the three-day battle.

One account from the book describes it being prepared for the casualties at Mons where " the orderlies were just beginning to make Bovril for the wounded, when the Germans deliberately shelled the bearers and ambulance wagons as they were bringing the wounded into the hospital.

Although all rebellions were eventually put down at enormous cost and casualties, the central imperial authority was seriously weakened.

However, they were eventually put down on 4 June when PLA troops and vehicles entered and forcibly cleared the square, resulting in numerous casualties.

This ( response ) operation, codenamed Azalée, was remarkable, because there were no casualties, and just in seven days, plans were drawn up and soldiers were deployed.

Such tactics were successfully used by the French, for example, at the Battle of Friedland, when sixty-six guns fired a total of 3, 000 roundshot and 500 rounds of grapeshot, inflicting severe casualties to the Russian forces, whose losses numbered over 20, 000 killed and wounded, in total.

Based on the 1000 casualties per year criterion, there were 213 civil wars from 1816 to 1997, 104 of which occurred from 1944 to 1997.

If one uses the less-stringent 1000 casualties total criterion, there were over 90 civil wars between 1945 and 2007, with 20 ongoing civil wars as of 2007.

During the Cold War dog tags were issued to everyone, often soon after birth, since the threat of total war also meant the risk of severe civilian casualties.