The insider dealings, both aboveboard and behind the scenes, continued, while the casualty report for the Continental War was finally released. Without question, both belligerents had suffered grievous losses; the war's brutality was unparalleled in history.
According to Vienna Government statistics, this war had directly reduced the population of the European Continent by more than twelve million. Aside from the more than four million who had emigrated, the rest had all died in the war.
Statistics:
Among the Anti-French Alliance, 2.377 million soldiers had been killed and 1.92 million civilians had died. (Those killed in action included those who later died of untreatable wounds.) The detailed figures were as follows:
Austria: 742,000 soldiers killed, 28,000 civilians dead; (including colonial wars)
German Confederation: 582,000 soldiers killed, 587,000 civilians dead;
Belgium: 273,000 soldiers killed, 556,000 civilians dead;
Spain: 21,000 soldiers killed; (civilian deaths negligible)
Switzerland: 6,000 soldiers killed; (civilian deaths negligible)
Kingdom of Sardinia: 176,000 soldiers killed, 465,000 civilians dead; (including guerrillas and local insurgent forces)
France: 3.206 million soldiers killed, including 1.368 million colonial troops, 417,000 Italian soldiers, and 1.421 million homeland soldiers; 886,000 civilians dead. (Including the civil war)
Looking at the sets of icy figures in his hands, Franz sighed. Other than having lasted slightly less time, this war had been no less brutal than World War I in the original timeline.
The number of civilian casualties in particular far exceeded that of World War I in the original timeline. Besides the vast area over which the fighting had spread, the more important reason was the expulsions.
Even though the Vienna Government had launched relief efforts at the first opportunity, it had still failed to lower the death rate by much.
The old, weak, sick, and disabled could not endure such upheaval. Many civilians whose bodies were not