Dec 28, 2018, 12:03pm
This Napoleonic Soldier Survived For Two Months With Horrific Facial Wound Following 1812 Battle
Kristina Killgrove
Skull of individual C2 from mass grave in Kaliningrad dating to 1812 and reconstruction of his face.O Doutour / F Comte / D Coutinho Nogueira
A mass grave in Russia dating to the 1812 invasion by Napoleon's Grande Armée has revealed that one soldier, who suffered a horrific facial wound during combat, may have survived for two months before succumbing to his injuries. A 3D study of the skeleton is providing new information on both his injury and what he looked like prior to receiving it.
Writing in a research paper recently accepted by the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, an international team of researchers based in France, Russia, Canada, and Germany detail the saber-inflicted trauma suffered by a Napoleonic soldier who was buried in a mass grave in Kaliningrad. The capital of Eastern Prussia at the time, this city was one of the places where the survivors of Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion rested in late December 1812.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/12/28/this-napoleonic-soldier-survived-for-two-months-with-horrific-facial-wound-following-1812-battle/#bd3387414fcf
