Reply #5: Not really an honest way to look at it. [View All]

[Xithras]

1861 to 1865, the U.S. Civil War was being fought.

European wars happening around the same time:

Italian Revolution, Italy-Austria, 1848-1849
Crimean War, Britain, France, Russia, Sardinia, the Ottoman Empire, 1854-1856
Second Opium War, Britain & China, 1856-1860
Indian Mutiny, Britain & India, 1857
Second Italian War for Independence, 1859-1860
War for Italian Unification (Civil War) 1860-1865
French-Mexican War, 1863-1867
Austro-Prussian War, 1866
Third Italian War for Independence 1866
Third Carlist War, Spain (Civil), 1872-1876
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Russi-Turkic War, 1877-1878

I've left quite a few smaller ones out too. To claim that Europe was "peaceful" is to completely ignore history.

The second half of the 19'th century was extremely brutal worldwide.