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years. None of the European contests since the 

 close of the Napoleonic struggles can be compared 

 to it. Thus the Light Brigade at Balaclava lost only 

 37 per cent, or 247 men out of 673, while the Guards 

 at Inkermann lost but 45 per cent, or 594 out of 

 1,331 ; and the heaviest German losses in the Franco- 

 Prussian war were but 49 and 46 per cent, occurring 

 respectively to the Third Westphalian Regiment at 

 Mars-le-Tours, and the Garde- Schutzen battalion at 

 Metz. 



These figures are taken from "Regimental Losses 

 in the American Civil War," by Col. Wm. F. Fox, 

 Albany, 1881 ; the loss in each instance includes few 

 or no prisoners save in the cases of Garnett's brigade 

 and of the Third Westphalian Regiment. 



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