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The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Standing armies and navies of the world (search)
seven years, is stated, (on English official authority,) to be, for England $265,000,000, and for France $90,000,000. We have before us two calculations of the cost of only the great wars of England, and we find by the lowest calculation that the war occasioned by the revolution of 1688, "to establish William and to humble France," cost $155,000,000. The war of the Spanish succession, "to deprive Philip of the crown of Spain and to humble the Bourbons, " cost $220,000,000. The Spanish war of 1739, "a quarrel. about Campeachy and the crown of Hungary, commonly called the Logwood War," $235,000,000. The seven years war, in 1776, about Nova Scotia, $535,000,000. The American war, resulting in the independence of the United States, cost $755,000,000. The war of the French Revolution, "to impress anti-monarchial principles in France and the rest of Europe," cost $2,360,000,000. The war against Bonaparte, "to restrain the ambition of Napoleon," cost $2,930,000,000.--Scientific American.