THE ARMED FORCES OF EUROPE.
Some correct statistics have been collected respecting the number of men employed in the armies of Europe. Here is a list:-
The cost of maintaining, clothing, and paying these men at the rate of 401. per head is £180,000,000 per annum. The above will give our Native friends a slight idea of the vast numbers inhabiting one portion of the globe—Europe.
Austria 738,344 Prussia 719,092 Bussfa 850,000 France 626,000 Great Britain and India 334,827 Denmark, Sweden, i Spain, Portugal, i *wd Italy, J 305,497 total : 5,771,769
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 13, 20 August 1862, Page 20
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91THE ARMED FORCES OF EUROPE. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 13, 20 August 1862, Page 20
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