BONE-APART: Bones Of English Dead At Battle Of Waterloo Were Sold As Fertiliser, Study Suggests

Batalla de Waterloo - Jan Willem Pieneman La bataille de Waterloo (1824, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) de Jan Willem Pieneman (1779-1853).
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22 June 2022
The bones of the fallen soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo were sold as fertiliser, a new study has suggested. The study, which was published on 17th June, nearly 207 years to the day after the epic battle on 18th June 1815, suggests that it is "most probable" that the bones of fallen...