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Total 30 dead, 103 wounded; that is 4,60 or 3,50% depending on whether
there were 2,900 or 3,500.

French:
- II battalion of Foot Hunters: 6 wounded;
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-1 regiment of line Infantry: 2 wounded;
- 29 th regiment of line Infantry: 5 wounded;
-59 th regiment of line Infantry: 2 dead, 1 missing, 22 wounded of which
2 officers (Captain Marambat and Lieutenant Blanc);
- Mounted Hunters: 1 wounded.
Total 2 dead, 1 missing, 36 wounded; that is about 2 or the 1,30% of
overall losses depending of whether there were 2,000 or 3,000 men.
On the whole French-Papal losses amounted to: 32 dead, 1 missing, 139
wounded; total 172, that is 3,45 or 2,45% depending on whether there were
5,000 or 7,000 men. Fabrizi believes that the French-Papal losses were much
higher: in Mentana 256 French-Papal soldiers and a few officers would have
been buried; on the 16 th November 200 wounded French soldiers would
have been boarded in Civitavecchia for Marseille, maybe also including
wounded from the Legion d’Antibo.
If these greater losses by the French-Papal were proved, they could only be
explained by the surprise element and the closeness of the first episodes of the
battle so that that the poverty in weapons of the Garibaldians had less weight;
with the greater density of enemy formations relative to the particular scat-
tering of irregular troops, on which tighter formations even the inferior rifle
of the volunteers could have a grip on. But this unproved assertion is certain-
ly exaggerated.
The Garibaldian losses are even more difficult to ascertain, as it was diffi-
cult evaluating the number. According to Fabrizi the Garibaldians suffered in
total 370 losses that is:
- 150 dead (40 of which officers) buried in Mentana;
- 206 wounded admitted in Rome’s hospitals, and a few other less serious-
ly wounded that managed to get inside the borders of the Kingdom.
Guerzoni who differs little from the numbers of Fabrizi gives for the vol-
unteers150 dead, 240 wounded, 900 prisoners.
Kanzler: about a thousand between dead and wounded and 1,398 prison-
ers; de Failly: 600 dead and wounded in proportion, prisoners 1,600 taken to
Rome and 700 escorted to the Italian border.