Waterloo Uncovered
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NOS News•today, 09:23
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An international team of archaeologists has found a field grave of one of the soldiers who died near the site of the Battle of Waterloo. The find is special, because traces of the many fallen are hardly ever found.
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“I’ve been a battlefield archaeologist for 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” said study leader Tony Pollard of the University of Glasgow. “You can’t get any closer to the horrific reality of Waterloo.”
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The find was made in a hamlet just outside Brussels, Mont-Saint-Jean, where a British field hospital was located at the time. Bones of several loose limbs were also found near the skeleton, evidence of the amputations that took place here in 1815.
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Other traces of the fierce battle were also unearthed, such as ammunition boxes, medical waste and bone remains of horses. Also among the members of the team that did the excavation are 20 veterans, for whom the work helps to cope with their own traumas. Among them are also five Dutch.
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The found skull –
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The Excavation –
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A horse skeleton –
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At the Battle of Waterloo, a coalition army of British, Germans and Dutch put an end to Napoleon’s rule. About 20,000 people were killed in the fighting on June 18, 1815.
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Despite the high numbers of casualties, few traces of the fallen have been found over the years. The dead were probably burned at the stake or their bones were crushed into bone meal for use as fertilizer.
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The researchers hope to be able to conduct extensive geographic research in the area for the first time in the future, in the hope of finding perhaps forgotten mass graves.
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