Shocking truth about remains of Waterloo dead

[guy]

Here is a rather disturbing article about the reason for the small number of bodies discovered in the Waterloo area despite the large number of dead:

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Here’s the awful truth: Pollard now believes the war dead were dug up by “commercial contractors” and their bones ground down to make both fertiliser and provide a means of “filtering” sugar beet to make refined sugar. It was the era of the body-snatchers, after all. Newspaper reports at the time have been found recounting how bones were brought into England and Scotland and “pulverised and used as bone meal because of the high phosphate content”. Perfect for fertilising crops. Animal and whale bone was also used.

“My hypothesis is that they’re quarrying these mass graves, which in some cases contained hundreds of bodies.” Pollard also believes ground bone was used in the sugar beet “filtration process”. There was even a sugar beet factory near Waterloo. “There was a saying in France at the time that ‘you’ll be stirring the remains of your ancestors into your tea’.”

 

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23071063.culloden-colonialism-ptsd-scotland-dark-secrets-bloody-battlefields/

 

Scientists May Have Found Where the Bodies of Waterloo Went | Discover Magazine

Edited October 23, 2022 by guy

[caldrail]

Yeesh. I know that there was a roaring trade in 'false teeth' after the battle, but wholesale exploitation? That's fairly extreme.