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Butcher’s Bills: Engagement-level preponderance and casualties in the French Revolution Wars and Napoleonic Wars, 1792–1815 Cover

Butcher’s Bills: Engagement-level preponderance and casualties in the French Revolution Wars and Napoleonic Wars, 1792–1815

By: John Hickman  
Open Access
|Mar 2024

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Regression coefficients, dependent variable: Casualty ratio

Independent variablesCoefficientStandard errorst-stat
French victory, draw or loss−0.34160.4559−0.75
Napoleonic Wars 1805–1815−1.45690.9832−1.48
Bonaparte Battlefield Command0.50151.75890.29
Iberia0.97501.24490.78
Russia0.71402.27870.031
Preponderance ratio−0.5051*0.02444−20.69
Number of national armies0.17070.4754−0.36
R-square0.3509
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Summary data

Characteristics945 Engagements823 Engagements
Battle Outcome
French victory442399
Draw3426
French defeat470398
Mean Preponderance Ratio
French victory4.2094.400
Draw0.0071.494
French defeat1.2961.277
Mean Casualty Ratio
French victory–1.932
Draw0.021
French defeat0.235
Number National Armies
Two635552
Three or more311271

Ordered logit coefficients, dependent variable: Engagement outcome

Independent variablesCoefficientStandard errorsZ score
Preponderance ratio0.2566*0.04156.17
Napoleonic Wars 1805–1815−0.28400.1503−1.89
Bonaparte Battlefield Command1.6079*0.32115.01
Iberia0.4168*0.18942.20
Russia0.08150.31600.26
Number of national armies−0.1004*0.0475−2.11
Pseudo R-square0.0687
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jms-2023-0004 | Journal eISSN: 1799-3350 | Journal ISSN: 2242-3524
Language: English
Page range: 51 - 60
Submitted on: Mar 10, 2022
Accepted on: Sep 7, 2023
Published on: Mar 11, 2024
Published by: National Defense University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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