Waterloo Uncovered: Bones from the Battlefield
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In a special episode from our sister podcast Warfare, Dan is joined by host James Rogers fresh off the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium where last week an astonishing discovery was made. The project Waterloo Uncovered unearthed bones that could hold extraordinary insights into the experiences of Waterloo soldiers, their diets, health, life and death.
This episode was edited and sound designed by Aidan Lonergan.
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| 0:58.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to Downs and O's History. |
| 1:11.0 | We're bringing you one of our sibling podcasts, Warfare. |
| 1:17.0 | And it's excellent. |
| 1:18.0 | James Rogers. |
| 1:19.0 | And the reason we're doing that is because team history has got wind a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:22.0 | There's something big time happening on the battlefield of Waterloo. |
| 1:25.0 | And so we sent James down. |
| 1:27.0 | We deployed James as part of the Allied Force to Waterloo itself. |
| 1:32.0 | Moul Saint-Jean, we're well-installed on that fateful day in June 1815. |
| 1:36.0 | And James was there when the remarkable archaeological breakthroughs were made. |
| 1:41.0 | He's made a documentary for history at TV, which you can go and check out. |
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