5 sentences with “casualty”

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.