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When Napoleon was infamously defeated at Waterloo in 1815, the conflict left a battlefield littered with thousands of corpses and the inevitable detritus of war. But what happened to all those ...
A pile of amputated limbs and the remains of several military horses have been excavated at the site of the Battle of Waterloo. The gruesome discovery was made at a farm in Belgium by Waterloo ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a ‘gore’ trench on the site of a field hospital on the Waterloo battlefield that was used to collect remains from the battlefield. A previous excavation in 2022 ...
Archaeologists and military veterans have uncovered a 'unique' clearance trench on the site of a field hospital on the Waterloo battlefield. Veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered is carrying ...
(See also: How the Battle of Waterloo changed the world.) This 1874 oil painting by Félix Philippoteaux shows one of the last French cavalry charges against the British infantry during the Battle ...
More than 20,000 men were killed on June 18 1815 during the 12-hour battle to halt Napoleon’s advancing forces, in what is considered one of the bloodiest days in the history of the British Army.
It is common knowledge that at “Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender.” And the fact that the ABBA song is best known around the world in its English iteration is the outcome of the Battle of ...