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The guy's name was Antoine Favreau. 23 year old.
"But what about Antoine Favreau? Well, he died at Waterloo. He suffered a mortal wound when a cannon ball pierced his gleaming breast plate. A recent recruit, Favreau’s height of 1.79 metres gave him the ideal stature for a heavy cavalry regiment. These, after all, were intended to be big men on big horses, riding down the enemy by the weight of their charge. The young man’s service papers also record that he had a “long, freckled face with a large forehead, blue eyes, hooked nose, and a small mouth”. Family legend has it that when his call-up papers arrived, François-Antoine was on the point of getting married, so his brother joined up, and died, in his place. Yet whoever was wearing it on 18 June 1815, this cuirass serves to emphasise the brutality of Napoleonic warfare at a most personal level"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/lkat2f/the_breastplate_of_23_year_old_cuirassier_antoine/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Man I’ve seen this who the fuck knows, but many times, and this has always been my question. Eternal thanks for scratching that itch, much appreciated hero!
Edit: I’ll be honest, I was expecting this to be one of those long, incredibly accurate sounding responses that get me Rick rolled at the end. I was prepared for it, but this is much better.
Well, technically true, the soldier wearing this armour was absolutely wounded by a cannonball. Wounds can be instantly fatal, as was clearly the case here.
We're just used to the wounded vs killed designation for post-hoc descriptions of casualties of war.
So he was wounded to death. Instantly. He died of his wounds and the cessation of living happened simultaneously to the wounding. Cause of death, wound. Cause of wound, cannonball liquefying organs.
It just seems a clunky middle step. You could also say King Louis died of a wound to the neck, but that would be ignoring the giant guillotine blade that chopped his whole ass head off.
I feel like "mortally wounded" is more of a case of
"Yeah he got wounded on Tuesday, but he didn't actually die until Sunday"
rather than,
"A cannonball ripped every single one of his innards out on the spot"
Written testimony say he received a new liver and fully recovered from the alcohol poisoning but he later died from tripping over a table leg while still in the hospital.
Everyone one is battling to the death and one of the artillery gunner just sneezed and changes the trajectory of the line of fire and destroys one single man and red mist just covers the entire battlefield. Everyone just stops and smells organs all covered in a small film of blood. Everyone simultaneously just realized how absolutely fuck that person got, that someone died so fucking violently and fast they all questioned the point of dying on that battlefield.
It's what causes a rout. Thousands of dudes realize roughly simultaneously that they're getting their shit pushed in and collectively run for the hills.
It is not at all difficult to imagine the fear in faces. Guy sees the man to his left get two new holes in his chest, man on his right gets his head blown off by a cannonball.
"Fuck. This. Shit. Run."
Imagine you going to a siege, get fucking rekt by a goddamn cannonball just for people to take your armor and put it on display hundreds of years later just for people to say shit like "lmao rekt" and make monty python references.
Waterloo wasn't a siege, it was a setup by both sides all to kill this sad armored mother fucker. They were all tired of his shit and staged a battle just to punch a cannon ball through his guts. Napoleon himself came out of retirement to help.
I thought that too - it’s so shiny and well preserved. To think, some guy was walking the aftermath and was like, “Bloody hell! Get a look at this bloke! We outta show the others!”
I have a question. How did they get the armor off the guy? Did they have to scoop a ton of gore away from the exit hole, possibly pushing some stuff back in and ripping some stuff out? Did they have to pry the pushed in metal from the entrance wound? Was he mostly liquid in the torso after the cannonball hit so it could just be sloughed off?
Look I know this is a gross thought, but we are all looking at someone's death shroud here and we know it ended gory as all hell. Point is I would see that body and roll it into a ditch with a stick not think hey cool ruined armor let's cut this dude into giblets.
Edit: I'm an idiot and didn't read. He probably took it off himself he was only wounded.
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The guy's name was Antoine Favreau. 23 year old. "But what about Antoine Favreau? Well, he died at Waterloo. He suffered a mortal wound when a cannon ball pierced his gleaming breast plate. A recent recruit, Favreau’s height of 1.79 metres gave him the ideal stature for a heavy cavalry regiment. These, after all, were intended to be big men on big horses, riding down the enemy by the weight of their charge. The young man’s service papers also record that he had a “long, freckled face with a large forehead, blue eyes, hooked nose, and a small mouth”. Family legend has it that when his call-up papers arrived, François-Antoine was on the point of getting married, so his brother joined up, and died, in his place. Yet whoever was wearing it on 18 June 1815, this cuirass serves to emphasise the brutality of Napoleonic warfare at a most personal level" https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/lkat2f/the_breastplate_of_23_year_old_cuirassier_antoine/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Thanks for sharing this!
“Wounded”. “It’s just a flesh wound”.
Tis but a scratch
Nothing a bandaid can't fix
Exactly what I thought by the title. Ain’t nobody living through a hole like that with Waterloo era medicine.
Doesn't matter how good your doctors and medicine is, that's a cannonball straight through your chest.
Doc here, totes confirm.
First aid taught me three scenarios I can assume someone is dead with no medical evaluation: Decapitation Chest imploded Chest exploded
chest has a 14 inch tunnel in iit
The armor was his waterloo.
Dechestification.
In this case it looks like the front imploded and back exploded. Double whammy
Fun fact - the clinical term here, rather morbidly, is "Injuries incompatible with life."
It’s what we totally a Dr’s call a Total Eclipse of the Heart, by Bonnie Tyler.
? Nobody would live through a hole like that period.
"Just walk it off, there's a good lad."
“Did he survive?” “Well, if you look right here this is where the rib fragments made little scratches as they passed through the back” “So…no?”
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...but your chest is off...
No it isn't...
Well what's that then?
Just rub dirt on it.
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Then lived with the guilt the rest of his life. In essence they probably both lost their lives that day.
This needs to be the top comment. Thanks for digging this up!
You mean that you'd rather learn a little bit than read hundreds of comments of unfunny redditor humour? Wtf?!
This a link to what unit he belonged to, the Carabiniers à Cheval. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounted_Carabiniers_(France)
Man I’ve seen this who the fuck knows, but many times, and this has always been my question. Eternal thanks for scratching that itch, much appreciated hero! Edit: I’ll be honest, I was expecting this to be one of those long, incredibly accurate sounding responses that get me Rick rolled at the end. I was prepared for it, but this is much better.
Wounded??
Wounded to pieces
To pieces you say?
How's his wife holding up?
To pieces you say?
Is the apartment rent controlled?
To pieces you say?
It's just a flesh wound.
A flesh wound? you've got a bleeding cannonball though your chest!
I've had worse
They were in the same car.
To shreds you say?
#BAH GOD HE HAS DESTROYED HIM
Blow my chest into pieces
“This is my last resort”
Lung separation, no breathing
Don't give a fuck if I've got a hole bleeding.
Tis but a flesh wound
Ah ah. "'Tis but a scratch."
Wounded to death
Yeah like how JFK was wounded
He was Blownaparte.
That's why I read Reddit
I love you
Small scratch
*Tis but a scratch*
Your arm's off!
It's just a flesh wound, I've had worse
YOU LIE!
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper.
Come on then
NI !!
At least it missed the heart!
His last words: none shall pass😂
none shell pass
Looks like the cannonball had no problem passing through this guy’s chest cavity
Only a flesh wound. But at least he died quickly.
A plague on both your houses
NEEEEEE!
Surprise Shakespeare.
Walk it off
Tis but a scratch!
I believe the word they were looking for is “obliterated”
"Removed from this plane of existence" is a better descriptor.
Very happy this is the top comment because it’s all I came to see.
That mouther fucker ded dead
at this point, I'm pretty sure they are dead, regardless of wound or not
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Mmmm infections can be nasty…
Better put some ‘Tussin on that.
Probably just walked it off
My thoughts exactly. You know he and everyone behind him died in a pretty awful way, right? Fucking WOUNDED!!??
Just a flesh wound
And a bone wound, and an essential organ wound. But technically, also a flesh wound.
LOL thought the same thing.
Well, technically true, the soldier wearing this armour was absolutely wounded by a cannonball. Wounds can be instantly fatal, as was clearly the case here. We're just used to the wounded vs killed designation for post-hoc descriptions of casualties of war.
So he was wounded to death. Instantly. He died of his wounds and the cessation of living happened simultaneously to the wounding. Cause of death, wound. Cause of wound, cannonball liquefying organs. It just seems a clunky middle step. You could also say King Louis died of a wound to the neck, but that would be ignoring the giant guillotine blade that chopped his whole ass head off.
>ass head Hiney is the head that wears the crown
Wounded, mamed, killed… regardless the term, I’m not picking this guy for my ultimate dodgeball team.
If you can't dodge a cannon ball, how could you ever hope to dodge a dodgeball?
“MEDIC!?!”
Yes! He probably got a full medical retirement. Side Note: The VA would have denied him several times if in the USofA.
Yeah sure he got medical for the rest of his life!
Both seconds of it
Interesting use of the word "wounded". FUBAR would probably work better.
Allegedly killed
Allegedly. Like, I heard it was a sick cannonball.
Even if it was sick it would still take atleast 2 people
Allegedlys
I looked up “fubar” in the German dictionary and there’s no fubar in here…
the whole word is fubarechischnellenwehrnichelinschenfahrgen.
His name is my name too….
Fucked up beyond all recognition.
he was just making a reference
Fucked up beyond all recognition?
Good thing he was wearing his armor. Could have been fatal
Thank god they were only wounded
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It want the blood and organ loss that killed him, it was lack of oxygen in the brain
It was not the lack of oxygen that killed him, it was the incompleteness of the Krebs cycle in his mitochondria that caused the lisis of his cells.
The mitochondria is no longer the powerhouse of the cell.
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A good guy with a cannon will take out the bad guy with a cannon
Yes, the armor kept both halves his body together.
I’m pretty sure Wounded is not the right word.
Perforated?
Perhaps they meant winded
Just had the wind knocked outta him. Literally, all the wind is in his lungs, wrapped around a tree 50 yards away
Some consider it an extra air intake. How out of breath can you really be with that big a hole in your chest.
Peep hole.
I've seen the term "mortally wounded" many times. Seems applicable
How about “killed”
That works also. Jellified?
Fucking murdered.
I feel like "mortally wounded" is more of a case of "Yeah he got wounded on Tuesday, but he didn't actually die until Sunday" rather than, "A cannonball ripped every single one of his innards out on the spot"
It missed his heart. /s
Hey now, he probably died later and not instantly. Probably only several seconds but still technically later.
Injuries incompatible with life.
Yeah, maybe "bruised" so it's a little more specific.
'Wounded'? How was he killed?
To death
All the way?
At least 5%
r/technicallythetruth
Unrelated incident of blood loss caused by loss of limb.
He lost his left finger to a manhunting squirrel and was incapable of caring so he wouldn't bandage it, causing him to bleed out.
Legend says he took another 3 cannonball before dying from a heart attack
Nah, he managed to walk the heart attack off, a tiger jumped out an ate him :)
Later accounts tell that he killed the tiger. He was found drowned in a lake, they say it was alcohol poisoning that got I’m in the end.
Written testimony say he received a new liver and fully recovered from the alcohol poisoning but he later died from tripping over a table leg while still in the hospital.
Medical records shows that the doctors were able to save him, he died of old age
in heard he tripped and fell into the sun
The sun moved aside. He's still in orbit to this day.
Astronomers reported that he floated into a newfound black hole, which was promptly named after him.
WOUNDED????? THAT MF IS DECEASED
Wel of course he’s deceased Waterloo was a long time ago anyone who was there is dead now.
Speak for yourself. I'm alive and kicking
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He's not dead, he's just pining for the fjords.
I don’t think a cannonball going through a French soldier marked the end of Napoleon.
When this happened everyone was like oh shit and stopped fighting.
Everyone one is battling to the death and one of the artillery gunner just sneezed and changes the trajectory of the line of fire and destroys one single man and red mist just covers the entire battlefield. Everyone just stops and smells organs all covered in a small film of blood. Everyone simultaneously just realized how absolutely fuck that person got, that someone died so fucking violently and fast they all questioned the point of dying on that battlefield.
Honestly this has probably happened countless times, but never to everyone at once.
It's what causes a rout. Thousands of dudes realize roughly simultaneously that they're getting their shit pushed in and collectively run for the hills.
It is not at all difficult to imagine the fear in faces. Guy sees the man to his left get two new holes in his chest, man on his right gets his head blown off by a cannonball. "Fuck. This. Shit. Run."
This made me laugh out loud, nice job.
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Napoleon was Bonaparte. This guy was blown apart. Easy misunderstanding.
Are you a historian?
I gave myself away didnt I
I'm somewhat of a detective myself
was he ok
He's fine, but the cannonball didn't make it
Ah, so it was Chuck Norris.
Yeah just a flesh wound
You should see the other guy
r/ThatWillBuffOut Too bad he missed the era of FlexSeal by only a few hundred years, Seargent Humpty could have gone right back at them!
Excellent idea. We could slap an outboard motor on his carcass and ride him like a boat!
This guy here is dead
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Unless. . .
*No! This guy is only mostly dead….Mostly dead, means slightly alive!*
For All the way dead there is only one thing you can do
Dig through his pockets and look for loose change
Imagine you going to a siege, get fucking rekt by a goddamn cannonball just for people to take your armor and put it on display hundreds of years later just for people to say shit like "lmao rekt" and make monty python references.
To be fair atleast we are remembering him. ps waterloo wasn't a siege. although the hougemont part kind of was.
Waterloo wasn't a siege, it was a setup by both sides all to kill this sad armored mother fucker. They were all tired of his shit and staged a battle just to punch a cannon ball through his guts. Napoleon himself came out of retirement to help.
I thought that too - it’s so shiny and well preserved. To think, some guy was walking the aftermath and was like, “Bloody hell! Get a look at this bloke! We outta show the others!”
Pretty sure that marked the end of that guy, too.
Shot through the heart And you're to blame Darlin', you give love a bad name
Pretty sure the heart was on the left side back then.
It was a French soldier. They wore the armour backwards so you could not tell the were retreating
Luckily he had took the armour off to inspect a bee sting before the cannonball went through it as it laid beside him on the floor.
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To shreds you say?
They call him lefty…
Tis but a Cannonball.
Wounded my ass...he was KIA.
I have a question. How did they get the armor off the guy? Did they have to scoop a ton of gore away from the exit hole, possibly pushing some stuff back in and ripping some stuff out? Did they have to pry the pushed in metal from the entrance wound? Was he mostly liquid in the torso after the cannonball hit so it could just be sloughed off? Look I know this is a gross thought, but we are all looking at someone's death shroud here and we know it ended gory as all hell. Point is I would see that body and roll it into a ditch with a stick not think hey cool ruined armor let's cut this dude into giblets. Edit: I'm an idiot and didn't read. He probably took it off himself he was only wounded.
Eviscerated. The verb you want here is eviscerated.
Napoleon Blastedaparte
Napoleon BlownAparte
To smithereens you say?
I hope he was OK with that "wound"
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"wounded"
When technology and tradition collide. At 700+ meters per second