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A large Napoleonic battle happens in a field by an important river. Men are buried, but what happens to the hundreds of dead horses? They're pretty hard to bury, but leaving them to rot hampers work in the fields and threatens to contaminate the water. Would armies bother to do something?

by /u/fan_of_the_pikachu in /r/AskHistorians

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