Armor of a soldier wounded by a cannonball at the battle of Waterloo in 1815

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This breastplate, blown open by a cannonball, attests to the violence of the fighting, much like Mercer’s account. Given to the Musée de l’Armée during its creation by colonel de Liechtenstein, it is one of millions of objects that were found on the Waterloo Battlefield and taken as souvenirs or relics by those who visited. A booklet which was once in an inside pocket of the padding but has since been lost, bore the name François Antoine Fauveau, 23 years of age, a dairyman by profession, who was incorporated into the 2nd rifle regiment in May 1815. His height – 5’8 – destined him for this elite force. His statement of service records him as having ‘a long face’: “a large forehead, blue eyes, aquiline nose, small mouth, a face marked by freckles”. Family tradition maintains that this was not François, who had to get married, but in fact his brother, who stood in for him and died at Waterloo.

https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/objects/carabiniers-breastplate-from-the-waterloo-battlefield/

[ret5hd]

1. Wounded? Who was this man, Monty Pythons Black Knight?

There's a f'n cannonball hole all the way through!

[CatWoman]

2. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

upon finding this story i had to go to you tube just to watch that.

gets me every time.

great minds and all

[Achilleaze]

3. "It's only a flesh wound." - Waterloo Man

[mitch96]

4. Yup, that could ruin your day...nt