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The Battle of Waterloo was one of the most horrific actions fought during the Napoleonic Wars. There have been several studies of battlefield injuries and the field care that casualties received during the campaign of June 1815. However, what happened to the many thousands of injured men left behind as the armies marched away is rarely discussed. In June 1815, around 62,000 Allied and French wounded flooded into Brussels, Antwerp, and other towns and cities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and swamped the medical services. These casualties were eventually cared for by a wide mix of medical personnel including hundreds of ‘Belgian’ surgeons, most of whom had trained in the French Service de Santé and who assisted in the dispersal, treatment, and rehabilitation of thousands of casualties after the battle. New data concerning the fate of the thousands of Allied and some French casualties has emerged from the library of the University of Edinburgh. This has revealed a collection of over 170 wound sketches, detailed case reports, and the surgical results from five Brussels Hospitals. The sketches were carried out by Professor John Thomson, who held the first Regius Chair in Military Surgery appointed by the University of Edinburgh. Most accounts are of Allied wounded, but certainly not all. The accounts, drawings and surgical results dramatically alter our understanding of the management of military wounded in the Georgian army.

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"War devastates the lives of those who are caught up in it. For thousands of years reparations have been used to secure the end of war and alleviate its deleterious consequences. More recently human rights law has established that victims have a right to reparations. Yet in the face of conflicts that last for decades with millions of victims, how feasible it is to deliver reparations? This book drawing from interviews with dozens of victims, ex-combatants, government officials and civil society actors in six post-conflict countries examines the history, theoretical justifications and practical challenges of implementing reparations after war. Importantly it argues that reparation success rests on the struggle of victims against the hegemony of States and unwillingness of other responsible actors to remedy the past. To secure implementation it involves finding a goldilocks zone between victims' rights and societal interests, as well as encouraging those responsible for causing such carnage in war to make amends to those left suffering the consequences. Reparations offer the promise of a better future for victims caught up in war, but just because the guns have silenced, does not mean that the contestation of the legitimacy of war, who is a victim and deserves to benefit from scarce resources has ceased. This book sheds new light on the role of non-state armed groups in making reparations, the role of victim mobilisation, the evolving use of reparations and the political instrumentalization of redress"--

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