A team of archaeologists is planning to excavate a Napoleonic farmhouse that was defended against seemingly impossible odds by the Coldstream Guards during the Battle of Waterloo, 200 years ago.
The archaeologists, led by Prof Tony Pollard of Glasgow University, will begin the most comprehensive excavation carried out so far of the farm at Hougoumont and the wider battlefield. They will be joined by Mark Evans, a former Coldstream Guards officer, who narrowly escaped death while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. He returned home in 2010 with post traumatic stress disorder.
In an effort to deal with his condition, Mr Evans is going back in time to one of his historic regiment’s most famous victories, on June 18, 1815. Read more in the Telegraph.
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