  t-research-on-where-the-mass-graves -went/ > for some decades now, we have known that many of the bodies of the dead at waterloo were stripped and buried in long shallow mass graves, with a few possibly also being burnt alongside the horse carcasses. however, it has also been realised for a very long time that the mass graves have been emptied, as on many other napoleonic battlefields across europe. > it has been clear that much bone was extracted from these sites for crushing to make fertiliser  > during the napoleonic wars, the french empire was cut off from supplies of sugar from the west indies and napoleon had heavily promoted the growth of sugar beet as an alternative source of sugar. however, beet does not naturally produce a nice white sugar, which people wanted. how to achieve white sugar? > it was discovered that if sugar beet was filtered through a layer of bone ash it would become nice and white, and where to get bone ash aplenty? use the bones in the mass graves and burn them to ash! this has got me doing a big think about the holocaust now lads.
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