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During the period 28th to 30th June, the Brigades of the XXIXth and Lowland Divisions dropped in strengths approximately as follows: 86th from 71 officers, 2,807 others to 36 and 1,994; 87th from 65 and 2,724 to 48 and 2,075; 88th from 63 and 2,139 to 46 and 1,765; 156th from 102 and 2,839 to 30 and 1,399. All Officers who have arrived from England to date are included in the above figures.
Fremont's return of April 30 is as follows: Milroy's Brigade 4,807 Schenck's Brigade 3,335 of May 10: Milroy 3,694 Schenck 3,335 of May 31: Milroy 2,914 Schenck 3,335 Schenck reports that the total force ENGAGED at M'Dowell was 1768 of Milroy's brigade, and about 500 of his own, total 2268; and that he himself brought to M'Dowell 1800 infantry, a battery, and 250 cavalry say, 1600 men.
The grand total of losses in those fatal three days thus reached the enormous aggregate of 54,807! A losing cause never showed a braver front than the Confederacy put on in the Wilderness. It was a front of iron. A man weaker than Grant would have quailed before it.
"The net land revenue has risen in the ten years beginning 1870-71 from £20,335,678, or nearly half the total net revenue of £42,780,417, by about two millions sterling, to £22,125,807, with a total net revenue of £49,801,664. The gross revenue of the latter year, 1879-80, was £68,484,666, the difference being derived from sources other than taxation, such as the opium monopoly.
If we express the world's indebtedness, the national debts, in the terms of our currency, as nearly as we can reduce the currency of other nations to such an expression, we find the national debts as follows, in 1890: Denmark $ 33,004,722 Great Britain 3,848,460,000 United States 915,962,112 Germany 1,956,217,017 Austria-Hungary $2,666,339,539 France 4,446,793,398 Russia 3,491,016,074 Italy 2,324,826,329 Spain 1,251,433,096 Netherlands 430,539,653 Belgium 360,504,099 Sweden 64,220,807 Norway 13,973,752 Portugal 490,493,599 Greece 107,306,518 Turkey 821,000,000 Switzerland 10,912,925 These debts aggregate $22,955,386,008
The payments at the Treasury on account of the service of the War Department from January 1 to October 29, 1867 a period of ten months amounted to $109,807,000.
In 807 the Manichaean sect made formal application to be allowed to have recognised places of meeting; shortly after which they too disappear from history. Judaism.
Their results are not yet completely reduced, but the best value deduced so far for the parallax is 8".807 +/ 0".0028. It consisted of a graduated metal circle, suspended by a ring which was passed over the thumb, and hung vertically. A pointer was fixed to a pin at the centre. This arm, called the alhidada, worked round the graduated circle, and was pointed to the sun.
According to the figures of Herr Ernest Schultze, in 1907 the forty largest German cities, with a population of 11,380,000, had public libraries containing a sum total of 807,000 volumes.
The value of exports from the United States to foreign countries during the year ending June 30, 1884, was as follows: Domestic merchandise $724,964,852 Foreign merchandise 15,548,757 Total merchandise 740,513,609 Specie 67,133,383 Total exports of merchandise and specie 807,646,992
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