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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 12451712, member: 20148&quot;]An interesting item indeed!</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a number of battle scared trees form various battle around. The Battle field at Waterloo in Belgium still has a couple of trees at the farm at Hougoumont with musket shot in them. there were three but one unfortunately was quite renetly lost in a storm.</p><p>The farm was the scene of bitter fighting throughout that day and the trees are quite peppered with shot.</p><p>Today just happens to be the 211th anniversary of that battle.</p><p><br /></p><p>At Little Roundtop, the 20th Maine Regiment had a quarter of their strength killed or wounded. Their bitter defence of the roundtop saved the entire union left wing from being outflanked, and thus was instrumental in the Union victory. It, like all the battles of the unfortunate civil war, deserved to be remembered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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