The human toll amounted to 10,667 children allegedly victimized by 4,392 priests from 1950 to 2002, but the studies caution that even these numbers represent an undercount.

That toll amounts to the worst wave of killing in a nine-year war that has claimed more than 7,400 lives and raised fundamental questions about the stability of an area central to regional American policy.

However, the railways steadily took the trade, and in 1914, the tolls collected only amounted to £56.

From one end of the 118-mile turnpike to the other, from the Delaware Memorial Bridge to the George Washington Bridge, drivers complained that the new tolls amounted to, well, highway robbery.

At first the toll amounted to Eastern Deutsche Mark 10 per passenger car and 10 to 50 for trucks, depending on size.

The toll for damage in the county amounted to $110 million.

The toll roads were extolled as a solution to underfunded highway projects, but also decried by opposition groups who felt the tolls amounted in some cases to a double tax.

In 1716, tolls amounted to £475, although the work was unfinished, and Ashley estimated that a further £800 was required to complete it.

Initially, there were up to four barges working on the navigation, and tolls for the first year amounted to £460.

The cumulative toll of military repression amounted to some 200,000 deaths, 50,000 disappearances and the uprooting of 500,000 people.