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States and Canada, giving a total of

about 60,000,000 who use the German

language. French is spoken by tho

38,000,000 inhabitants of France, by

2,500,000 people in Belgium,

by 200,000 in Alsace-Lorraine,

by 600,000 in Switzerland, by 1,500,-

000 in tho United States and Canada,

by 600,000 in Hayti and by 1,500.000

in Algiers, India, the West Indies and

Africa—in all about 45,000,000. En

glish is spoken by 37,000,000 persons

In tho British Isles, by probably 57,-

000,000 of the 60,000,000 inhabitants

of the United States, by 4,000,000

persons in Canada, by 3,000,0 in

Australia, by 3,700,000 West Indians

and by 1,090,000 in India and other

British colonies, bringing tho total of

tho English-speaking race to over

100,000,000.

A Ited Blot In History.

From 1791 to 1800, when warfare

was almost continuous, 2,080,u00

Frenchmen were successively called

under arms. In 1800 only 677,598 re

mained. In ten years nearly 1,400,000

soldiers had disappeared. And this

was only the republic’s share. That

of tho consulate and empire far sur

passed it. Napoleon's consumption of

men is estimated at 2,000,000 by the

most moderate statisticians, and at

3,000,000 by M. Kichet in his most

careful estimate. Broca and Thiers

admit the loss of 1,000,000 of French

men, the rest belonging, according to

them, to the allies incorporated in the

French armies. But the total re

mains the same. “It stands as a great

rod blot in the history.” In the lan

guage of General Foy, “A man entered

the military service at that time never

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Saratoga sun. (1893). Saratoga, Carbon County, Wyo., 1893-03-02. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83002748/1893-03-02/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Saratoga sun, 1893-03-02.