here
So that you dont feel I make everything up
but anyways here we go:
Book
"A history of modern world societies" volume 2 by McKay Hill Buckler Ebrey
"Deep loyalty to the mother country led Australia to send 329,000 men and vast ecconomic aid to britain in the First World War." (p 928)
(213,850 casualties)
"South African war of 1899-1902"
"British armies defeated the smaller Afrikaner forces within a year, but they needed 450,000 soldiers from all over the empire and a savage "total war" of burned farms and deadly concentration camps for Afrikaner women and children to crush 80,000 Afrikaner commandos after they turned to guerilla warfare" (p 853)
Book
"A survey of European Civilization" third edition by Wallace K. Ferguson
Geoffrey Bruun
"In 1860 he approved a plan to reduce exemptions udner the military service law and double the reserve period for conscripts, thereby increasing the Prussian army to 190,000 men in peacetime and 450,000 in war."
(p 707)
"The population, including Tasmania, rose from about 1,700,000 in 1871 to some 5,000,000 by 1914" (p769) (I hope they boost Australia)
"From about 3,000,000 in 1783, the popultion of the United States, its territories and its possessions multiplied to nearly 120,000,000 in 1914, to rank fourth in this respect among the empire of the world." (p782)
"One other important development of the year 1915 was intervention of Italy in the conflict. On April 26, after months of bargaining Italy and the Allied powers concluded the Treaty of London, and on may 23 she declared war against Austria. In return for this assistance the Alllied Powers promised her all those sections of "unremedeemed Italy" to the north oand east of the Adriatic Sea which she coveted, and more if she could take it, for in disposing of the enemy territory the Allies could be generous" (p 812)
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/docs/statistics/stats1-4.htm
During the Civil War 2,400,000 men served in the northern armies or in the Navy. In that struggle 10 in each 100 inhabitants of the Northern States served as soldiers or sailors.
Armies 1914
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Countries in First World War Standing Armies
& Reserves in
August 1914 Mobilised Forces in 1914-18
Russia 5,971,000 12,000,000
France 4,017,000 8,410,000
Great Britain 975,000 8,905,000
Italy 1,251,000 5,615,000
United States 200,000 4,355,000
Japan 800,000 800,000
Romania 290,000 750,000
Serbia 200,000 707,000
Belgium 117,000 267,000
Greece 230,000 230,000
Portugal 40,000 100,000
Montenegro 50,000 50,000
Germany 4,500,000 11,000,000
Austria-Hungary 3,000,000 7,800,000
Turkey 210,000 2,850,000
Bulgaria 280,000 1,200,000
329,000/5,000,000=6.58%
Texas is very hard to represent in terms of a nation, basicly most of its Armies were citizens who rose up against mexican rule especially after the attrocious behavior of Santa Anna. It really should have been an event giving texas all the lands and recognition by mexico and 7 years later event to chooze to join the union.