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Piece of war
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Plenty of discussion on the authenticity of this across the military forums, i and many others think its a clever piece of froggie bullshine !
Found 100 or so years or so after the battle in that condition with no corrosion? fecking unlikely to say the least as it was supposed to have been dug up by a farmer !
Even proper conservation would not remove pits left from corrosion after that length of time in the ground!
The "eye witnesses" all state it/he was hit with a particular sized round shot (cant remember what without looking it up) but recent tests show that particular round does NOT leave that sized hole and the destruction at the exit is catastrophic which isn't the case here
It was at first and for many years claimed that Faverau survived the injury which is an absolute impossibility considering the lack of medical care available at that time and that scavengers would finish off anyone wounded before searching them for plunder
At this time a valuable piece of metal of any sort would NOT be left on the battlefield, all metals were very valuable, scarce, hard to produce and well sought after, those same scavengers would have removed this along with anything else of value
Which brings me to the supposed letter, something else of value that would have also been scavenged if it survived "tucked in" the breastplate, extremely unlikely considering the potential amount of blood, gore and crap that would have been filling the breastplate and supposedly being in the ground for such a long time
Within a few weeks of the battle the site became a tourist attraction with wealthy punters from across europe visiting, bodies were still strewn around even then and enterprising locals were selling Arthur Wellesley's own boots by the cart load to gullible numpties as a sideline to clearing up burying and burning bodies (after stripping them of anything of the slightest value of course)
Again I cant remember off the top of my head who "found" it but he was a well known "entrepreneur" and made a good living from this and other so called "authentic" items (fortunate as he was down on his luck beforehand)
Fecking cheese eating surrender monkeys, cant trust them !
Found 100 or so years or so after the battle in that condition with no corrosion? fecking unlikely to say the least as it was supposed to have been dug up by a farmer !
Even proper conservation would not remove pits left from corrosion after that length of time in the ground!
The "eye witnesses" all state it/he was hit with a particular sized round shot (cant remember what without looking it up) but recent tests show that particular round does NOT leave that sized hole and the destruction at the exit is catastrophic which isn't the case here
It was at first and for many years claimed that Faverau survived the injury which is an absolute impossibility considering the lack of medical care available at that time and that scavengers would finish off anyone wounded before searching them for plunder
At this time a valuable piece of metal of any sort would NOT be left on the battlefield, all metals were very valuable, scarce, hard to produce and well sought after, those same scavengers would have removed this along with anything else of value
Which brings me to the supposed letter, something else of value that would have also been scavenged if it survived "tucked in" the breastplate, extremely unlikely considering the potential amount of blood, gore and crap that would have been filling the breastplate and supposedly being in the ground for such a long time
Within a few weeks of the battle the site became a tourist attraction with wealthy punters from across europe visiting, bodies were still strewn around even then and enterprising locals were selling Arthur Wellesley's own boots by the cart load to gullible numpties as a sideline to clearing up burying and burning bodies (after stripping them of anything of the slightest value of course)
Again I cant remember off the top of my head who "found" it but he was a well known "entrepreneur" and made a good living from this and other so called "authentic" items (fortunate as he was down on his luck beforehand)
Fecking cheese eating surrender monkeys, cant trust them !
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