This paper uses the writings of early visitors to the field of Waterloo to examine the treatment of the dead following the battle fought on 18 June 1815. It is proposed that these memoirs and journ...
). Kennedy has highlighted their role in creating notions of national identity , and Semmel considered the role that both objects and landscape played in connecting British tourists and collectors to the recent past . The disposal of the dead has been given some consideration by O’Keeffe, who devoted a section to the process in his 2015 volume,.
Rather than paraphrasing, which can be frustrating when one is interested in what the original commentator really said, these early visitors are, where relevant, quoted at reasonable length, with these extracts indented within the text. It should also be noted that this paper does not represent a report on the archaeological investigations carried out on the battlefield by– these are available elsewhere and more detailed studies will continue to appear as the results are processed.
Among those early visitors were residents of Brussels, which in 1815 had a healthy British population. They included James Ker, who wrote of his visits to the battlefield, the first of which took place within a day or so of the fighting (
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