https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ite-sugar.html
EXCLUSIVE: Have historians finally solved mystery over why only TWO skeletons have ever been found at Battle of Waterloo? Experts say bones of 20,000 British and French soldiers were ground down and used to make white sugar
- Research was carried out by Dr Bernard Wilkin and historians Professor Tony Pollard and Robin Schäfer
- The team discovered dozens of contemporary written accounts in Belgian, German and French archives
- They suggested bones were plundered from 1834 and used for burgeoning sugar industry in Belgium
- The findings of the study have been shared exclusively with MailOnline in the UK
