Napoleonic Wars casualties

'Napoleon's Surgeon', Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, used horse-drawn carts as ambulances to quickly remove the wounded from the field of battle.

With the partial exception of the United Kingdom, all of the states at the time did not keep especially accurate records, so calculating losses is to a certain extent a matter of conjecture.

This rate is over 14% higher than the losses suffered by the same generation one hundred years later fighting Imperial Germany.

[7] Combined with new agrarian laws under the Napoleonic Empire that required landowners to divide their lands to all their sons rather than the first born, France's population never recovered.

By the middle of the 19th century France had lost its demographic superiority over Germany and Austria and the United Kingdom (UK).

Erik Durschmied, in his book The Hinge Factor, gives a figure of 1.4 million French military deaths of all causes.