In the French Wars of the Revolution, 1789–1795—
| Frenchmen | 1,800,000 |
| Other Europeans | 2,500,000 |
Wars of the Empire, 1795–1815—
| Frenchmen | 2,600,000 |
| Other Europeans | 3,500,000 |
In European and American wars since 1815—
| According to Lapouge’s estimate | 9,450,000 |
| Grand (Extremely Grand) Total | 19,850,000[[34]] |
This total does not show the spilt blood of perhaps one hundred million men wounded, in battle, but not killed.
It is specially important to consider also that this enormous total of twenty million—in round numbers—does not include many millions of non-combatants who in one way and another were destroyed during the wars and in consequence of the wars, nor the immense number of non-combatants wounded but not destroyed nor the vast amount of blood befouled and weakened with disease.
The number of men destroyed as combatants in the Franco-German War was 215,000. Lapouge estimates that for the brief Franco-German War the number of deaths among the non-combatants above the number that would have died at the normal death rate within the period consumed by the war if there had been peace, was 450,000. That is to say, during that short war of 1870–71 the number of non-combatants whose death was due to the war was more than double the number destroyed directly in the war. Now if this extra death-harvest rate among the non-combatants be calculated as being somewhat less than half true for all the wars of the civilized world for about one hundred years following 1789, we can safely add to the twenty millions slaughtered on the battlefield and in the military hospitals—to these, I say, we can add twenty millions more, who, like the four hundred and fifty thousand non-combatants in 1870–71, were smitten with the death-breath of war.
