5 sentences with 'casualty'

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« The British saw a casualty rate of "only" 39%, but that figure still represented the deaths of nearly a million men, with many more wounded or missing. »
« Crispus Attucks, the first man killed - and, though no one could know it at the time, the first official casualty in the war for independence - was of Wampan and African descent. »
« Part of this phenomenon was the fact that the old order of monarchy and nobility was finally, definitively destroyed, a casualty of the First World War. Never again would kings, emperors and nobles share power over European countries. »
« Out of the 103,000 men recruited, 16,697 New Zealanders serving in the war had been killed and 41,317 had been wounded; a 58 percent casualty rate. This was one of the highest rates per capita of any country involved in the war. Approximately a further thousand men died after the war, as a result of injuries suffered. »
« Within their remaining territory, the caliphs also faced uprisings. Even the idea of a united (Sunni) ummah was a casualty of this political rupture - the ruler of the Spanish kingdom claimed to be the 'true' caliph, with a Shi'ite dynasty in Egypt known as the Fatimids contesting both claims as they rejected the very idea of a Sunni caliph. »

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