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In large historical battles what happened to all the dead bodies when everything was done? For example in the Battle of the Somme, how the fuck do you get rid of one million dead bodies? Were they just left to rot in the sun and how long would that even take before you could return there?
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They became tourist attractions. The fields of skeletons would dissolve as people took souvenirs home with them. No joke.
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just mass graves I guess
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>>2067339
If you were lucky, there was enough left of you to be taken home and buried
Otherwise you were thrown into a mass grave
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>>2067369
If you're some shit eating peasant. And there is a giant firms teeming with expensive jewellery, weapons, armour, and various other valuables. What are you going to do.
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>>2067339
http://shannonselin.com/2016/07/napoleonic-battlefield-cleanup/
No glory for the dead
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>>2067825
It's still a risk to take since Somme was littered with defective underinsured British munitions
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>>2067873
Savage
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Greeks had a thing for dead soldiers. Everyone had to be reclaimed or the general could loose his head over it. So normally after each major battle, they called a trouce so everyone could take back his own dead.
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