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I agree 100%. Any post having to do with politcs or relgion should be removed (including mine) ASAP.

Reading any post is totally optional .

"Any post having to do with politcs or relgion should be removed (including mine) ASAP."

Shall we also remove any post having to do with spelling? 😀

Well, for one thing history and in particular discussion of war is not like discussing politics and religion. It’s history. I think it’s worth discussing since there is quite a bit of confusion, two use a word, about how many causalties of war there actually are. The initial post that assumed most wars had only 25,000 to 50,000 deaths is quite misinformed. Even the current civil war in Syria has killed at least 250,000, if not many more. The American Civil war resulted in deaths of 2% of the entire population or 600,000. In fact there were NO wars EVER in history where the casualties were as low as 25,000 to 50,000. Vietnam 2 million, Afghanistan 2 million. World War I was 20,000,000. Napoleanic wars 5 million. Sino Japanese War during WWII 23,000,000.

here is the wiki page for deaths according to war,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll

@onhwy61, "that is because "History" is written by the winners." (as jmcgrogan2 correctly noted).

Everyone remembers the 2 most important battles of the Revolutionary War: Yorktown and Saratoga....which is fine except there were actually 4:

Yorktown
Saratoga in the North
and Cowpens
and Kings Mountain in the South.

So why, when asked, does no one remember the last 2??
Because the North won the Civil War and they wrote all the history books.