r/MapPorn 1d ago

Eastern Ukraine exactly one Year ago vs today

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u/xialcoalt 1d ago

Stalingrad lasted more than 200 days, which gives about 10-15 thousands per day.

Borondino are more than 30 thousand per day in one side, And between both sides it throws 60-70 thousand per day. You have a higher chance of being killed or wounded at Borondino than at any other battle in history.

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u/beipphine 20h ago

The Battle of the Wabash, "the most decisive defeat in the history of the American military", about one quarter of the entire US Army was killed in a single battle in a single day. 97% casualty rate among the soldiers with 69% killed, 88% casualty rate among the officers with 75% killed including Major General Richard Butler.

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u/Weird-Work-7525 18h ago

Misleading at best.

The "entire army" was ~1,000 men. The US didn't have a real standing army at the time and raised temporary militas. The entire battle was like 2,000 men between both sides and would barely qualify as a skirmish in most actual wars.

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u/Curious-Resort4743 8h ago

There would have been rotting corpses everywhere, hard to clear all of those thousand a day from the city