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Note 46 — Chapter XIV · AFTER THE DOWNFALL

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The Campaign of the Hundred Days, it has been estimated, from first to last cost Napoleon in round numbers, in killed, wounded, and prisoners taken in the field:

Ligny (Killed and wounded) 10,000

Quatre-Bras (Killed and wounded) 4,300

Waterloo (Killed and wounded) 29,500

Waterloo (Prisoners unwounded) 7,500

Wavre (Killed and wounded) 1,800

Lesser actions (Killed and wounded) 2,100

Total 55,200

Out of the 126,000 men with whom Napoleon took the field, he lost some 43 per cent. of his army in the week between June 15 and 22.

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