a military person killed wounded or captured.
Caualties means deaths in war .
here is an example Right after the war in the Pacific, Japan surrendered to the Americans. The Philippines later was granted its independence but with over a million Filipino casualties. More than 60,000 Americans died and 300,000 Japanese lost their lives.
Men or Soldiers that had died
In military terms the definition of a casualty is as follows:A casualty is a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, interment, or being listed as missing in action.
Many people have the misunderstanding that a casualty and a fatality are the same thing. As can be seen they are not.
Many persons have gotten killed.
You mean with highest number of casualties? That would be the Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1921) with more than 1 million casualties.
The synonym for casualties is deaths.
At least ~12,000 overall Allied casualties , German casualties were estimated at between 4,000 and 9,000 casualties .
12,513 US casualties .
There were approximately 13,000 Union casualties at the Battle of Shiloh.
About 50,000 casualties total. Union Casualties, 23,000 Confederate Casualties, 25,000
about 650,000 total casualties
Casualties of Peace was created in 1966.
At the battle of Caporetto, the Central Powers had 20,000 casualties, while the Italian forces of the Allies had over 300,000 casualties! (That's a lot of casualties!)
According to the Department of Defense there have been approximately 4,500 Casualties on account of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The Confederate casualties were 20 000. The Union Casualties were 16 000.