Solferino. 8:00 PM. Only in the evening, after the storm had passed, did the full extent of the battle’s massacre become clear. The Austrians reported 13,005 dead and wounded, and 8,638 missing and prisoners; the French 10,152 killed and 1,518 missing; the Piedmontese 869 dead, 3,982 wounded, and 774 missing. These figures were perhaps normal in the time of Napoleon I, but they had been out of the European mind for half a century. Of the 238,000 men who fought at Solferino on both sides, 28,000 died or were wounded, that is, one in eight. In total, the dead numbered approximately 9,000, and another 5,000 were left disabled by amputations.
