RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
June 11, 2023 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2023 at 1:21 pm by Anomalocaris.)
even though 20,000 soldiers on both sides died during the battle of waterloo in 1815, only one skeleton of the battle dead had ever been found.
It is believed the local and English entrepreneurs had collected all the corpses and bones they could find, and ground them into fertilizers during the week and months after the battle.
The notion of hallowed ground and war graves were not much of the thing then.
It is believed the local and English entrepreneurs had collected all the corpses and bones they could find, and ground them into fertilizers during the week and months after the battle.
The notion of hallowed ground and war graves were not much of the thing then.