Excavation of Waterloo field hospital unearths limbs and musket balls
by Daniel Boffey in Strasbourg from Science | The Guardian on (#4KB6B)
Waterloo Uncovered's project shines fresh light on battle that led to Napoleon's defeat
The first ever excavation of the main allied field hospital at the Battle of Waterloo has uncovered sawn-off limbs and musket balls fired during a previously unrecorded fight on the steps of the farm where the Duke of Wellington's medics worked.
The surprise find by British and Dutch archeologists, digging alongside 25 military veterans, opens up a new understanding of how the Mont-St-Jean field hospital was engulfed by war on 18 June 1815.
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