A Soldier Killed At Waterloo Has Been Identified 200 Years Later

An amateur military historian is claiming that the identity of a 200 - yr - old skeleton found near the land site of the Battle of Waterloo was Friedrich Brandt , a soldier with a swerve upper backbone who was fighting for the King ’s German Legion of George III .

As Reutersreportedback in 2012 , the remains — let in the musket testis lodge firmly in the chest — were uncovered by construction workers as they were clearing an area in preparation for the Battle of Waterloo ’s bicentennial commemorations . A mechanically skillful excavator ruin into the skeleton ’s skull and immediately alerted the serve archaeologist , Dominique Bosquet , who quickly shouted for the workers to discontinue .

The discovery of a body near a field of honor where some 30,000 soldier perished may not seem too out of the ordinary , but Bosquet suppose the uncovering is exceptional . “ No other complete skeleton has been retrieved [ from Waterloo ] in 200 years,”he toldThe Sunday Times .

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After the battle , which transpire on June 18 , 1815 , the British made certain to take home their war dead , while Gallic bodies were plunder and thrown into mass Graf . It ’s also have sex thatthe pulverized bones of soldier and horses were sold as dirt fertilizer , add to the curiosity of the breakthrough .

The identity of the fall soldier — away from the initials FB — had antecedently been a mystery , but now , three twelvemonth later , military historian Gareth Glover says he ’s figured it out . As The Independentreports , “ There were only three German soldier with those initials , all from Hanover , fight for Wellington to liberate their country which had been invaded by Napolean in 1803 . They were give barracks in Bexhill , East Sussex , by George III , who was also Governor of Hanover . ”

One German soldier could be easy disregard because he fought on a unlike part of the battlefield . The other received a payment after the warfare , so that ruled him out . That left only one Friedrich Brandt , eld 23 .

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