Prussian Army Deaths. Bortkiewicz (1898) counted the numbers of Prussian soldiers killed by horse kick (a more serious problem in the nineteenth century than it is today) in 14 army units for each of 20 years, a total of 280 counts. of the 280 counts, 144 of them were 0, 91 of them were 1, 32 of them were 2, 11 counts were 3, and 2 counts were 4, (these data were reported and analyzed by Wins or, 1947)