88BCE: Mithridates vi Eupator of Pontus's order for the massacre of all Roman citizens in Asia was estimated to have resulted in 80K deaths in 1 day. (source: Marcus Tullius Cicero & Michael Grant 1989 _Selected Political Speeches_ pg38 note5)

Braddock's Field 1755 July 09: The British lost 456 soldiers (67 officers) with 521 wounded.   The French lost 23 and had 20 wounded.

Lexington 1775 April 19: 8 killed, about 10 wounded on the Green.   As they returned to Boston, the British were under constant assault from Massachusetts militiamen, who killed 73 and wounded 174; 26 were missing.   The Americans suffered 49 dead, 39 wounded, and 5 missing.

Brooklyn, Long Island, NY 1776-08-27 ~03:00-~12:00: "Counting both armies and the Royal Navy, more than 40K men had taken part... Howe reported his losses to be less than 400 -- 59 killed, 267 wounded, and 31 missing. The Hessians had lost a mere 5 killed and 26 wounded... Washington, unable to provide an exact count, would later estimate in a report to congress that about 700 to 1K of his men had been killed or taken prisoner." (David McCullough 2005 _1776_ pp 178-180)

Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing, TN 1862 April 6-7: 3,482 died, 16,420 wounded, 3,844 captured & MIA (total 23,746 casualties) (WikiPedia)

Antietam, MD: "On 1862-09-17, Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion of [NorthWestern] Maryland in the Civil War Battle of Antietam [about 50 miles north of Washington, DC].   During the battle, 23,100 were killed, wounded or captured..." --- _NY Times_
23,100 casualties at Antietam, MD
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20040917.html
Civil War Casualty Counts
http://www.civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm
Civil War Statistics by Battle

Summary Statistics by War
Stats and links from 1945 to the present
Time-Line of Terrorism
Death Tolls for the Major Wars and Atrocities of the 20th Century

WW2: Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 to 27: The Germans claimed to have taken 6,450 men prisoner. The Poles took 378 casualties, with 101st Airborne suffering 2,110 and 82nd Airborne suffering 1,432. The British ground forces suffered some 5,354 casualties, while the German casualties, like their unit strengths are almost impossible to calculate accurately, but are likely to range somewhere between 4K & 8K. Five Victoria Crosses were awarded, as were 2 posthumous Medals of Honour."

29,557 service members (all services) died in battle, or from battle-related injuries, during the Korean War. 4184 died from non-combat causes in the Korean theater. 92,934 were wounded in action seriously enough to be evacuated. (This number does not include those lightly wounded who were treated at battalion/regimental aid stations and returned to duty.) 7,245 service members became Prisoners-of-War.

"In Rwanda in 1994, Hutu tribesmen slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent victims, mostly members of the Tutsi tribe, hacking them to pieces with machetes, then stacking the corpses in piles like so much cordwood.   The Hutus butchered 800K men, women and children in 100 days, averaging 8,000 murders per day in 'the fastest, most efficient killing spree of the twentieth century'."

Death by Government
170M people murdered by their own governments during the 20th century.
1917-1991, Soviet Union murdered about 62M of its own people.
During Mao Zedong's reign, 35,236,000+ Chinese citizens were murdered.
Hitler's Nazis murdered 21M of its citizens and citizens in nations they conquered.
Pol Pot killed 750K to 2.3M
60M lives lost in war during the 20th century
Power Kills
The Nazis murdered about 20M of their own people and those in nations they captured.   Even the word Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers Party.   Between 1917 and 1987, Stalin and his successors murdered, or were otherwise responsible for the deaths of about 62M of their own people.   Between 1949 and 1987, Mao Tsetung and his successors were responsible for the deaths of about 76M Chinese. The origins of the unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.   Those horrors were simply the end result of a long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the quest for "social justice". [quoting/paraphrasing Walter E. Williams 2009-10-07 "Elites and tyrants"]
US Military Service Fatalities 1980 through 2006
2009-09-15: American War and Military Operations Casualties (pdf)

 

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