TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Tag: franco-prussian war

  • Short Takes

    UPDATE II:  Amazon.com has a special on Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary—less than forty bucks today only! UPDATE: I watched an interview on After Words with David Kilcullen, a former Australian soldier and counterinsurgency adviser to US commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan on C-SPAN last night. It’s definitely worth watching not only for what’s going […]

  • Casualties

    Although we Americans think of our Civil War as the defining war of the 19th Century, the Europeans were quite active in killing each other as well. I came across these casualty figures in an old book and thought I’d post them for comparison. The first conflict referred to is the German-Danish War; the second […]