Excerpt from Contemporary Wars: 1853 1866; Statistical Researches Respecting the Loss of Men and Money Involved in Them The ground upon which we are about to enter has not been thoroughly explored hitherto. The material losses comprise the losses of men and money - the losses of men are enumerated in the official statistics, and the losses of money are set forth in the respective budgets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.