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WATERLOO RE-ENACTMENT

The bicentenary of what became known in Britain as the Battle of Waterloo has been marked by an outburst of commemorations, central to which was an enormous re-enactment that took place at the battlefield on 19 and 20 June 2015.

Left background The dead, dying, and wounded lay far thicker on the field of Waterloo on the evening of 18 June 1815 than on the Somme on the evening of 1 July 1916 around 55,000 of them across some four square miles. John Heaviside Clark’s famous depiction, based on sketches done on the battlefield, captures the scale of it. left FOREGROUND A British assistant surgeon of infantry in Waterloo period uniform.

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The Darker Side of Victory: Wellington’s medical service at Waterloo

Historian of military medicine Mick Crumplin takes us into the grisly world of Napoleonic-era casualty treatment.