The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-Industrial West Published by Oxford University Press, July 2003 (in USA early Autumn) John Landers is a lecturer in Historical Demography and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Of particular interest you will find an appendix of Army strengths and Casualties at battles from 1619 to Waterloo. In the chapter on The Cost of War: Mortality and Population Loss, Mr. Landers presents tables indicating casualties in various wars. For example, he shows the losses of the French Armies from 1803-15 at 870,000. (In a footnote he explains that 370,000 additional French soldiers disappeared from the records and that an estimated 149,000 of these perished). He shows army deaths from combat in the period at 22.4% of the total losses. Back to OSG News June 2003 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by Operational Studies Group This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com