World History Analysis and Views

Circassia  was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the  Black Sea . For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the  Russians  drove the Circassians from their homeland and deported them to the  Ottoman Empire . At least 600,000 people lost their lives to massacre, starvation, and the elements while hundreds of thousands more were forced to leave their homeland. By 1864, three-fourths of the population was annihilated, and the Circassians had become one of the first stateless peoples in modern history. Between the late 18th and early-to-mid-19th centuries, the Adyghe people lost their independence as they were slowly conquered by  Russia  in a series of wars and campaigns. During this period, the Adyghe plight achieved a certain celebrity status in the West; but pledges of assistance were never fulfilled. After the  Crimean War , Russia turned her attention to the Caucasus in earnest, starting with the peoples of  Chechnya  and 

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Overview War or Conflict Date Total U.S. Deaths Wounded Total U.S. Dead & Wounded Missing Sources & Notes Combat Other Total American Revolutionary War 1775–1783 8,000 25,000 25,000 50,000 Northwest Indian War 1785–1796 1,056+ 1,056+ 825+ 1,881+ [1] [2] [3] Quasi-War 1798–1800 20 494 [4] 514 42 556 [4] [5] First Barbary War 1801–1805 35 39 74 64 138 [6] [7] [8] [9] Other actions against pirates 1800–1900 36 158+ [10] 194+ 100+ 294+ [5] [11] [12] [b] Chesapeake–Leopard Affair 1807 3 0 3 18 21 [5] War of 1812 1812–1815 2,260 12,740~ 15,000~ 4,505 20,000~ [13] Marquesas Expedition 1813–1814 4 4 3 7 [7] Second Barbary War 1815 4 134 [14] 10 148 [15] First Seminole War 1817–1818 47 47 36 83 [16] First Sumatran Expedition 1832 2 2 11 13 [5] Black Hawk War 1832 47 258 [17] [18] 305 85 390 [19] Second Seminole War 1835–1842 328 1,207 1,535 [20] Mexican–American War 1846–1848 1,733 11,550 13,283 4,152 17,435 [21] Cayuse War 1847-1856 40 1 41 74 115 [22] Rogue River W