It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 750, 000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties.

It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.

The total number of French casualties cannot be calculated precisely, so complete was the collapse of the Franco-Bavarian army that day.

Trevelyan estimates Villeroi ’ s casualties at 13, 000, but adds, ‘ his losses by desertion may have doubled that number ’.

By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

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.

It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.

Although Eugene's forces inflicted double the number of casualties on the French the battle settled little except to deter Vendôme trying an all-out assault on Imperial forces that year, enabling Eugene to hold on south of the Alps.

Although the Romans defeated the Carthaginian fleet and were successful in rescuing its army in Africa, a storm destroyed nearly the entire Roman fleet on the trip home ; the number of casualties in the disaster may have exceeded 90, 000 men.

The exact number of casualties on each side is difficult to determine, due to bias in the historical sources.

The number of casualties and the timing of the terror differed markedly between the Reds and Whites.

These reforms made wars of attrition possible and greatly increased the number of casualties.

Haitian historians have estimated the true number was much higher ; one suggested, " the total number of battle victims and casualties of repression and consequences of the war might have reached, by the end of the pacification period, four or five times that-somewhere in the neighborhood of 15, 000 persons.

To counter this, the Yishuv authorities tried to supply the city with convoys of up to 100 armoured vehicles, but the operation became more and more impractical as the number of casualties in the relief convoys surged.

Faced with mounting international pressure and great number of casualties on both sides, the Soviets withdrew in 1989.

It is the highest number of casualties in any one day during The Troubles.

Compared to other militaries, it has suffered the highest number of casualties in the war.

To the present date, total combined American military casualties of the sixty-five years following the end of World War II — including the Korean and Vietnam Wars — have not exceeded that number.

Recent investigations suggest that the actual number of casualties could be much higher.

An additional 1, 382 government soldiers or policemen were wounded during the same period, with the report estimating that the total number of casualties could reach 2, 500 by the end of the year.

Oscillating battle lines inflicted a high number of civilian casualties and wrought immense destruction.

This process can be ever-changing, dependent upon the situation and must attempt to do the maximum good for the maximum number of casualties.

:" we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower.

The number of wounded was 763, 753 and POWs 145, 104 Other estimates of Ottoman military casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: Killed 50, 000, died wounds 35, 000, died of disease 240, 000 By US War Dept in 1924: 325, 000 killed and died.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

the halls were empty and they passed down the stairs to number nine and listened at the door.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

The original machine, bearing its famous serial number, is still on exhibition at the Brown & Sharpe Precision Center in Providence.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

This, of course, depends on the character of the site itself, the previous experience of the investigator, and the number of factors needed to arrive at a good decision.

There may be possible economies at any one of a number of links in your marketing and distribution chain.

Are you careful to restrict the number of people on leave at one time so that your total employment obligation is minimized??

The number depends on who is talking at the moment.

If no specific organization plan exists limiting the number of scientists at each salary level, the result is a department top-heavy with high-level, high-salaried personnel ''.

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.

We note that two such curves C and Af, cannot coincide at more than a finite number of points ; ;

For it is clear that the total number of ordinary intersections of C and Af must be even ( otherwise, starting in the interior of C, Af could not finally return to the interior ), and the center of rotation at T is the argument of the function, not a value.

The number of ordinary values of the function f{t} at T will be called its multiplicity at T.

The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

So a quick count could be made at any time, even by an illiterate clerk, of the number of registered persons in four age-and-sex classes.

The reason for the value of this procedure was simply that the applicants were tested `` at work '' in different situations by the judgment of a number of experts who could see how the salesmen conducted themselves with different, but typical restaurant owners and managers.