For more than 200 years, the skeleton has lain alone and undisturbed in a ditch close to Mont-Saint-Jean farm, south of Brussels - since the soil was turned into a bloody mire by the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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A University of Glasgow study has suggested that the bones of soldiers who were killed during the historic Battle of Waterloo may have been stolen by local thieves to be sold for fertiliser.