Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

As the death toll begins to rise, more desperate measures are taken.

The 2, 996 death toll makes the hijackings the most fatal in history.

The death toll is 315, with nearly 5, 500 injured.

The death toll amounted to about 170 knights of the defeated party, and many thousands of foot soldiers on either side.

Various studies have estimated the death toll at between 740, 000 and 3, 000, 000, most commonly between 1. 4 million and 2. 2 million, with perhaps half of those deaths being due to executions, and the rest from starvation and disease.

Researcher Craig Etcheson of the Documentation Center of Cambodia suggests that the death toll was between 2 and 2. 5 million, with a " most likely " figure of 2. 2 million.

Arguably one of the largest warfares in the 19th century in terms of troops involvement, there were massive lost of lives, with a death toll of about 20 millions.

The death toll reached 101 in September, and the Selectmen, powerless to stop it, " severely limited the length of time funeral bells could toll.

With the smallpox epidemic catching speed and racking up a staggering death toll, a solution to the crisis was becoming more urgently needed by the day.

Estimates of the total death toll vary considerably.

The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400, 000 people displaced.

His research shows that the death toll from democide is far greater than the death toll from war.

* 2006 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines ; the official death toll is set at 1, 126.

Over the next six months, the deaths in camp numbered in the thousands ( the majority being from disease ), with historians ' death toll estimates ranging from 2000 to 2500, to over 3000 men.

By late autumn, the death toll began to slow until, in February 1666, it was considered safe enough for the King and his entourage to return to the city.

However, taking into account that it was common practice to release prisoners who were either suffering from incurable diseases or on the point of death, the actual Gulag death toll was somewhat higher, amounting to 1, 258, 537 in 1934-53, or 1. 6 million casualties during the whole period from 1929 to 1953.

The Soviet system of forced labour, expulsions and allegedly engineered famine had a similar death toll.

However, in a report to the Secretary of the Navy he reported the death toll as being 3 250.

On January 12, 2010, Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake, magnitude 7. 0 with a death toll estimated by the Haitian government at over 300, 000, and by non-Haitian sources from 50, 000 to 220, 000.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.

Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

There can be no greater magic than to wrest from death her in whom the flesh was all, in whom beauty was entirely pure because it was entirely corruptible.

The medical examiner states that death was due to `` natural causes ''.

Rathbone said he was bleeding to death.

In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.

One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.