Riddle of troops who met their Waterloo
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Not long after the Battle of Waterloo, a lawyer from Edinburgh looked out over the site of Napoleon’s defeat. “From Lord Wellington’s station we stood and gazed on the whole scene,” James Simpson wrote. “Deep now was the silence of the vast sepulchre of 20,000 men.”
More than two centuries later, archaeologists hope to solve a mystery that hangs over the conflict: what happened to the bodies of those who fell?
Between 5,000 and 20,000 men are estimated to have died at Waterloo in 1815 yet the remains of fewer than half a dozen have been found by researchers.
A new study, led by Professor Tony Pollard of the University of Glasgow, gives weight to a macabre theory: that many were placed in mass