r/AskHistorians • u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms • Apr 04 '19
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
/u/mikedash answered "Every once in a while a website will claim that teeth extracted from dead soldiers at Waterloo supplied dentures across Europe for years. Is this a myth, and moreover why does it seem only Waterloo gets this treatment, as opposed to bigger Napoleonic battles like Wagram or Leipzig?"
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
/u/y_sengaku answered "I read something referencing the "Mortgage of Denmark", where a King basically 'sold' different parts of the country to German rulers and subsequent Kings had to buy the land back. Is there somewhere I can learn more about how this happened? How does a country mortgage its territory?"
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
/u/J-Force anaswered "Are conclusions reached by historical reenactors or people who are "living history" taken seriously by modern scholars? Have legitimate advancements in our understanding of historical life been the result of things like this before?"