French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars

AD – MPE: 0.25

ND – MPE: 0.55

On his website “Necrometrics” White cites estimates for the number of people killed during the French revolution, which range from 0.03 to 0.05 million. 0.04 million is the most plausible estimate. He cites three estimates, which claim that 1 million civilians died during the French Revolutionary Wars from 1792 to 1802 and the Napoleonic Wars from 1803 to 1815. According to one estimate 65 percent of the war victims died during the wars between Napoleon’s nondemocratic empire and its enemies and 35 percent died during the wars of the Republic, which I view as an advanced democracy from 1791 to 1799. All of France’s enemies in these wars except for Britain were nondemocracies. It isn’t clear how many of the civilians died from diseases. Napoleon’s rule can be characterized as authoritarian liberalism. His wars count among the most important examples of liberal imperialism in history. Despite of that I have categorized his reign as undemocratic.

Plausible estimates for the number of civilians killed by nondemocracies range from 0.3 to 0.8 million. 0.55 million is the most plausible estimate. Plausible estimates for the number of civilians killed by democratic pioneers range from 0.1 to 0.5 million. 0.25 million is the most plausible estimate.