Rare find at Waterloo of intact 200-year remains

[Dark Knight]

Almost 200 years after Prussian and English troops defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, Belgian archeologists have unearthed the complete remains of a young soldier in what they dubbed a rare find.


"You can almost see him dying," Belgian archeologist Dominique Bosquet said of the skeleton, lying on its back with the spherical musket bullet that felled the soldier still between his ribs.


http://news.yahoo.com/rare-waterloo-intact-200-remains-133810413.html

 

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The story, lots more pictures, and a Napoleonic sidebar here, at Daily Mail:

Who was CB? Rare intact skeleton of unknown 'British' soldier found on battle
-field of Waterloo - still with the musket ball that killed him lodged in his ribs

Musket ball. Ouch.