UNITED STATES IN FORMER WARS

War of 1812 with Great Britain, from June 18, 1812, to Feb. 17, 1815

Total War Navy 1812 $20,280,000 $11,817,000 $3,959,000 1813 31,681,000 19,652,000 6,446,000 1814 34,720,000 20,350,000 7,311,000 1815 32,943,000 14,794,000 8,660,000

War with Mexico, from April 24, 1846, to July 4, 1848

1846 $27,261,000 $10,413,000 $6,455,000 1847 54,920,000 35,840,000 7,900,000 1848 47,618,000 27,688,000 9,408,000 1849 43,499,000 14,558,000 9,786,000

Civil War, from 1861 to 1865

1860 $ 63,201,000 $ 16,472,000 $ 11,514,000 1861 66,650,000 23,001,000 12,387,000 1862 469,569,000 389,173,000 42,640,000 1863 718,733,000 603,314,000 63,261,000 1864 864,968,000 690,391,000 85,705,000 1865 1,295,099,000 1,030,690,000 122,617,000

Spanish-American War, from April 21, 1898, to Dec. 10, 1898

1897 $365,774,000 $ 48,950,000 $34,561,000 1898 443,368,000 91,992,000 58,823,000 1899 605,071.000 229,841,000 63,942,000 1900 487,713,000 134,774,000 55,953,000

EUROPEAN WAR TO AUG. 1, 1917

Entente Allies-Expenditures

Aggregate Present Daily United Kingdom $26,705,000,000 $25,000,000 France 16,530,000,000 18,500,000 Russia 14,250,000,000 15,000,000 Italy 5,050,000,000 7,000,000 United States 1,629,000,000 19,100,000 Other allies 3,250,000,000 5,000,000 Totals $67,414,000,000 $99,600,000 Less advances to allies and dominions 7,992,500,000 22,900,000 Net totals $59,421,500,000 $76,700,000

Teutonic Alliance

Germany $19,750,000,000 $25,000,000 Austria-Hungary 9,700,000,000 13,000,000 Bulgaria and Turkey 1,450,000,000 2,000,000 Totals $30,900,000,000 $40,000,000 Less advances to allies and dominions 600,000,000 Net cost $30,300,000,000 $40,000,000

Grand Total

Entente Allies $59,421,500,000 $76,700,000 Teutonic Allies 30,300,000,000 40,000,000 $89,721,500,000 $116,700,000

-“Source Book,” U. S. Treasury Department; cited in the Washington Post, Oct. 7, 1917.SBBS 583.1

Note.—At the time of closing the forms for the last signature of this book, there is available no tabulated statement of the total cost of the great World War, nor even to the signing of the armistice. But in a speech in San Francisco, March 18, 1919, telegraphed all over the country and quoted in the papers of the following day, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker stated that “the cost of the war alone was $197,000,000,000, or $11,000,000,000 more than the total property value of all North America.” To enable the mind to grasp the significance of these figures, the Secretary further said, “No child born in a civilized nation in the next hundred years will escape paying a considerable portion of the debt this war has brought about.” According to a dispatch sent out March 26, 1919, by the British wireless service, and printed in the American papers of the 27th, “Edgar Crammond, a prominent British financial writer, estimates the direct cost of the war to the Allies at $141,800,000,000, and to the Central European powers at $68,375,000,000. He estimates the total cost of the war, including indirect losses, at $260,000,000,000. There has been nothing, he says, approaching this destruction of capital wealth in the history of the world.”-Eds.SBBS 583.2

MOBILIZED STRENGTH AND CASUALTY LOSSES OF THE BELLIGERENTS

United States and Associated Nations

Nation Mobilized Dead Wounded Prisoners or Missing Total Casualties United States 4,272,521 67,813 192,483 14,363 274,659 British Empire 7,500,000 692,065 2,037,325 360,367 3,089,757 France 7,500,000 1,385,300 2,675,000 446,300 4,506,600 Italy 5,500,000 460,000 947,000 1,393,000 2,800,000 Belgium 267,000 20,000 60,000 10,000 90,000 Russia 12,000,000 1,700,000 4,950,000 2,500,000 9,150,000 Japan 800,000 300 907 3 1,210 Rumania 750,000 200,000 120,000 80,000 400,000 Serbia 707,343 322,000 28,000 100,000 450,000 Montenegro 50,000 3,000 10,000 7,000 20,000 Greece 230,000 15,000 40,000 45,000 100,000 Portugal 100,000 4,000 15,000 200 10,000 Total 39,676,864 4,869,478 11,075,715 4,956,233 20,892,226

Central Powers

Germany 11,000,000 1,611,104 3,683,143 772,522 6,066,769 Austria-Hungary 5,500,000 800,000 3,200,000 1,211,000 5,211,000 Bulgaria 400,000 201,224 152,399 10,825 264,448 Turkey 1,600,000 300,000 570,000 130,000 1,000,000 Total 19,500,000 2,912,328 7,605,542 2,124,347 12,542,217 Grand total 59,176,864 7,781,806 18,681,257 7,080,580 33,434,443

-From an article by Mr. Walter Littlefield, in Current History for February, 1919. The figures are practically all from official data.SBBS 584.1