Cuirasse du Carabinier — Waterloo
Here's the story, "
Cuirass with Cannon-Ball Hole":
This is a French cuirass, a breastplate worn as body armour by French cavalry. The hole is from a British cannonball that smashed through the unlucky soldier’s chest. The Waterloo campaign was the first occasion that British troops found themselves face to face with Napoleon’s armoured cavalry, whose cuirasses and metal helmets made them a daunting foe.
Yet as the British would discover, even these armoured troopers were by no means invincible as this breastplate brings home with shocking force.
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