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War |
Deaths |
Addendum |
|
War for Independence |
25,324 |
Bunker Hill cost 400 American lives |
|
War of 1812 |
2,260 |
|
|
Mexican War |
13,283 |
|
|
Civil War Union Confederacy |
863,153 498,332 364,821 |
Antietam cost 5,000 lives (both sides); bloodiest day in U. S. history |
|
War with Spain |
2,446 |
|
|
World War I |
116,516 |
Battle of Somme cost 19,240 British lives on a single day (total British casualties at the Somme: 57,470) |
|
World War II |
405,399 |
Other Losses: Soviet: 10,000,000 German: 3, 500,000 Japan: 1,500,000 British: 280,000 (at Dunkirk: 68,000 British casualties) |
|
Korean Conflict |
54,246 |
|
|
Vietnam Conflict |
56,244 |
|
|
Panama Invasion |
23 |
|
|
Gulf War I (1993) |
148 |
|
|
Gulf War II (2003) |
200+ |
(and counting) |
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