And the On this podcast I often say that we're on the front lines of military history and today I can prove it

I'm your host James Rogers this is the warfare podcast and we have an exclusive history defining special here on Wednesday.

I've just spent the last few days on what were the literal front lines of the Battle of Waterloo.

Over 200 years ago Napoleon faced off against Wellington and the Alliance in what would be an era defining era ending battle.

So ferocious was Waterloo that the combined number of men killed or wounded reached nearly 50,000.

Report surface of men and horses dying slowly on the battlefield for days after the fight,

with nowhere near enough locals or doctors to help them.

And instead of the war graves we see today, well, the end result was mass graves and

ceremoniously filled with soldiers' bodies. Yet one mystery has plagued the Battle of Waterloo and

stumped historians. Despite the large amounts of casualties and mass graves that were

reported, only one skeleton, one body has been found from that battle.

Some theories about the bodies were that they were exhumed 20 to 30 years after the battle

ground up and used as fertilizer, but this history

is being completely rewritten by what was found at Waterloo this week.

I'm not going to give it away but this is a truly exciting

special a cutting edge new military history that I know you're going to truly

find fascinating. Enjoy.

Hi Tony, welcome to the warfare podcast. Thank you so much for taking the time

to chat. It's a pleasure. Now give us a little indication of what your role is with Waterloo uncovered.

Well I am one of, I think there are four of us now, field directors and so we have oversight

of what's happening on the site in any given year.

But I'm also the academic lead.

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