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The casualties in the Army of the Cumberland were 22,807, while for all three armies they were 37,081.
Even though they had the advantage of fighting on the defensive, the Confederate forces had " almost as high a percentage of casualties as the Union forces ".
But the pirates had suffered so many casualties ( 120 Danes dead against 62 Frisians and English ), that they had difficulties putting out to sea.
The Allied progress was slow and hard, and like the defenders, they suffered many casualties.
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.
However, they were eventually put down on 4 June when PLA troops and vehicles entered and forcibly cleared the square, resulting in numerous casualties.
Two troops of British cavalry, one at the Four Courts, the other on O ' Connell Street, sent out to investigate what was happening, took fire and casualties from rebel forces On Mount Street, a group of reserve volunteer soldiers, stumbled upon the rebel position and four were killed before they reached Beggars Bush barracks.
The British troops, after taking some casualties, managed to regroup and launch several assaults on the position before they forced their way inside and the small rebel force in the tin huts at the eastern end of the Union surrendered.
They became less successful after this, with longbowmen taking casualties at the Battle of Verneuil ( 1424 ), and being completely routed at the Battle of Patay ( 1429 ) when they were charged before they had set up their defensive position.
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys ( whose much anticipated Smile project would not emerge until 2004 ), Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early " acid casualties ", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures.
The Republic of Turkey does not deny the Ottoman Armenian casualties, but denies they were genocide, specifically claiming that said deaths were consequence of war, and also were criminal killings neither approved nor committed by the Ottoman Empire.
On 15 November the Italians retreated to Bud Bud and on the way they were ambushed and suffered heavy casualties.
The sequence and details of the events are very close to the historical record, including the seasickness experienced by many of the soldiers as the landing craft moved toward the shoreline, significant casualties among the men as they disembarked from the boats, and difficulty linking up with adjacent units on the shore.
The narrator points out that the entire peacetime resources of the National Health Service, had they survived, would be unable to cope with the casualties from just the one bomb that hit Sheffield.
Casualty figures based on official reports during the war were published in 1925 by the Soviet Central Statistical office, they put Russia's casualties at 7, 036, 087.
The massively outnumbered Swiss force is destroyed in this battle, but inflict such casualties on the French that they withdraw.
As a result they did not fire and the CH-47 made an entry similar to the first, this time successfully landing the team on the ground amidst heavy machine gun and rocket fire while taking some casualties.
In 2007 Jack Sheldon rejected Edmonds's calculations, suggesting that although German casualties 1 June – 10 November were 217, 194 were available in Volume III of the Sanitätsbericht, ( Medical Report Concerning the German Army 1914 – 1918 ( 1934 )) Edmonds may not have included them as they did not fit his case.
Suffering heavy casualties and realising they would be quickly outflanked, the Norman and Flemish divisions retreated with the Bretons.
Because rescuers were unaware they were dealing with gas casualties, many additional casualties were caused among the rescuers through contact with the contaminated skin and clothing of those more directly exposed to the gas.
Paul the Deacon reported correctly in his Historia Langobardorum ( written around the year 785 ) that the Liber pontificalis mentioned these casualty figures in relation to Odo's victory at Toulouse ( though he claimed that Charles Martel fought in the battle alongside Odo ), but later writers, probably " influenced by the Continuations of Fredegar, attributed the Saracen casualties solely to Charles Martel, and the battle in which they fell became unequivocally that of Poitiers.
( Though they lost relatively few men in overrunning Aquitaine, they suffered some casualties — losses that may have been pivotal at Tours.

casualties and suffered
The Confederates suffered about 1, 500 casualties with an estimated 12, 000 to 14, 000 taken prisoner.
The second Battle of Doiran, with general Vladimir Vazov as commander, inflicted a heavy blow on the numerically superior British army, which suffered 12, 000 casualties against 2, 000 from the opposite side.
France suffered over 30, 000 casualties including the commander-in-chief, Marshal Tallard, who was taken captive to England.
Unlike Zealous, these British ships suffered relatively severe damage in the engagement ; Goliath lost most of its rigging, suffered damage to all three masts and received over 60 casualties.
Captain Antoine René Thévenard used the spring on his anchor cable to angle his broadside into a raking position across the bow of Nelson's flagship, which consequently suffered over 100 casualties, including the admiral.
Although the blazes were extinguished, the ship had suffered over 200 casualties.
The most-southerly British ship, Majestic, had become briefly entangled with the 80-gun Tonnant, and in the resulting battle, suffered heavy casualties.
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.
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.
During these wars the Finns suffered 90, 000 casualties and inflicted severe casualties on the Russians ( 120, 000 dead in the Winter War and 200, 000 in the Continuation War ) compared to other nations such as Poland.
In World War I, the Foreign Legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, including Artois, Champagne, Somme, Aisne, and Verdun ( in 1917 ), and also suffered heavy casualties during 1918.
In three day's fighting, the Allies captured more than 2, 000 Axis prisoners of war, mostly from the Italian Brescia ' and Pavia ' Divisions ; the New Zealand division suffered 1, 405 casualties.
The 69th Brigade suffered 600 casualties and the Australians 400 for no gain.
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.
The English suffered high casualties, but on 17 June 1497 the forces of An Gof and Callum were defeated.
Napoleon was largely defeated in the Battle of the Nations outside Leipzig in October 1813, and was overwhelmed by much larger armies during the Six Days Campaign ( February 1814 ), although, the Six Days Campaign is often considered a tactical masterpiece because the allies suffered much higher casualties.
Neither side advanced much, but both sides suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Alexander commanded his battalion at Third Ypres, where he was slightly wounded, then at Bourlon Wood ( part of the battle of Cambrai ), where his battalion suffered 320 casualties out of 400 men.
By the end of 1941, the Soviet military had suffered 4. 3 million casualties and German forces had advanced 1, 050 miles ( 1, 690 kilometers ).
The Soviets repulsed the important German strategic southern campaign and, although 2. 5 million Soviet casualties were suffered in that effort, it permitted the Soviets to take the offensive for most of the rest of the war on the Eastern Front.

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