In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated.

The Annual Register for 1763 tabulated the casualty list for British sailors in the Seven Years' War with France. Out of 184,899 men raised or rounded up for the war, 133, 708 died from disease, primarily scurvy, while only 1,512 were killed in action.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The history of mankind is a history of war.