re: #121 Feline Fearless Leader

19th century and thus rifles, muskets and cannons rather than spears and swords, but also better statistics on losses.

en.wikipedia.org

Pretty modern, that history. Those weapons are mechanical, and in the case of cannons, can result in numerous kills at one time. We had established govts, the printing press and eyewitness reporting, with people involved in counting losses and recovering the dead and wounded.

It’s also rather sad that the Civil War saw the likeliest highest number of US residents killed in any conflict in which the US was involved.