Quotes of Napoleonic - somelinesforyou

“ It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed. ”

- Senator Homer T. Bone

“ Hiccups in the international business scene are not new to us. Wedgwood china has survived upheavals before-the Napoleonic Wars, the Franco-Prussian War, the world wars. We do have a sense of continuity. ”

- Arthur Bryan
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