To these results, won by the sea, the issue of the continental war offered a singular and suggestive contrast.

France had already withdrawn, along with England, from all share in that strife, and peace between the other parties to it was signed five days after the Peace of Paris.

The terms of the peace were simply the _status quo ante bellum_.

By the estimate of the King of Prussia, one hundred and eighty thousand of his soldiers had fallen or died in this war, out of a kingdom of five million souls; while the losses of Russia, Austria, and France aggregated four hundred and sixty thousand men.

The result was simply that things remained as they were.[110] To attribute this only to a difference between the possibilities of land and sea war is of course absurd.