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The Emu War (or Great Emu War) [2] was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, said to be destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western Australia.
In 1932 many emus moved into farm territory in Western Australia, with the army called in to dispatch them in the so-called Emu War. Some attacks noted include in 1957 an emu charged a car, [15] in 1904 an emu attacked a dog's owner after the dog attacked it, [16] in 1873 an emu attacked children and a woman at Johnstone Park, Geelong. [17]
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 to 850,000. [88] 148 of the Union dead were U.S. Marines. [92] [93] ca. ^ Civil War April 2, 2012, Doctor David Hacker after extensive research offered new casualty rates higher by 20%; his work has been accepted by the academic community and is represented here.
American Civil War: 50,000 50,000 Siege of Paris: 1871 Franco-Prussian War: 332,142 229,000 Siege of Plevna: 1877 Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 75,000 [14] 75,000 Siege of Port Arthur: 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War: 100,000 [15] 100,000 Siege of Adrianople: 1912–1913 First Balkan War: 93,282 [16] 93,282 Siege of Liege: 1914 World War I ...
Globally, the civilian casualty ratio often hovers around 50%. It is sometimes stated that 90% of victims of modern wars are civilians, [5] but that is a myth. [2] [4]In 1989, William Eckhardt studied casualties of conflicts from 1700 to 1987 and found that "the civilian percentage share of war-related deaths remained at about 50% from century to century."
The 71-year-old logician and mathematician developed an obsessive fear of being poisoned and refused to eat food prepared by anyone but his wife. When she became ill and was hospitalized, he starved to death. [183] [184] At the time of his death, he only weighed around 65 pounds (29 kg). [185] [failed verification] Georgi Markov: 11 September 1978
The Black War was a period of violent conflict between British ... four company servants killed an Aboriginal woman at Emu ... The death toll from 1832 to 1834 was ...