On waterloo, the story goes that local farmers used the bones of men & horses to grind for fertilizer.
I'd be kind of pissed if two armies messed up my farm, but not sure I'd be that pissed off. Then again, I've never been as hungry as a farmer who's annual crop has been trampled down.
It is odd. But a lot of history is odd. They used to grind up Egyptian mummies for medical use too, when they weren't selling household dust as mummy dust.
I've only seen the one story on the missing bones going to fertilizer, but it seems more plausible than entire army remains going missing.
On waterloo, the story goes that local farmers used the bones of men & horses to grind for fertilizer.
I'd be kind of pissed if two armies messed up my farm, but not sure I'd be that pissed off. Then again, I've never been as hungry as a farmer who's annual crop has been trampled down.
bones as fertilizer? Bone meal has long been used.
It is odd. But a lot of history is odd. They used to grind up Egyptian mummies for medical use too, when they weren't selling household dust as mummy dust.
I've only seen the one story on the missing bones going to fertilizer, but it seems more plausible than entire army remains going missing.
Yawn, that's a poor argument. Remains. The later WWs sooner turned that area into. Where they also ploughed the Germans back into the soil.
Waterloo has been incredibly well documented.
It also made Rothschild his fortune