World's Top Ten Nations by Size and by Population (2 of 2)

[0din27]

good job on cultivating americans! :))

[jwoodswce]

American deaths in service:

Civil War 624,511

WWII 405,399

[MrCropper]

World Book, Vol. 4, Ci-Cz - Pub. 1978

Page 492: (Civil War)

"Deaths, including those from disease, totaled 529,332. By comparison, about 116,500 Americans dies in WWI and 405,400 in WWII."

Same stats on WWII, but huge disparity on the Civil War. : (

[jwoodswce]

Checking the table notes:

"The number of dead and wounded, especially for the Confederates, is not known exactly because many reports were incomplete or inaccurate, and records were lost. These figures are estimates from the evidence available. Sources include the Department of Defense; E. B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac; Thomas L. Livermore, Numbers and Loses in the Civil War in America, 1861-1865; and James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom."

[jwoodswce]

cont...

Source: The Civil War Battlefield Guide (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990), p. 301.

I added the extended information on the methodology, as I found it interesting.

[Joshbuckler]

Here's one from the Index of Economic Freedom: the Top Ten Most Free Countries in the World: 1. Hong Kong 2. Singapore 3. Ireland 4. Australia 5. United States 6. New Zealand 7. Canada 8. Chile 9. Switzerland 10. United Kingdom

[jfsimard79]

Are we not going to merge U.S, Canada, and Mexico to create the American Union which will be the biggest land mass anyways?