A DNA analysis has confirmed the identity of a mysterious one-legged skeleton discovered beneath a dance floor in Russia earlier this year.
As suspected, the skeleton is French general Charles-Etienne Gudin de la Sablonniere, who was struck by a cannonball during Napoleon’s ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812.
Historian and former soldier Pierre Malinowski led French and Russian archaeologists in the search of the general’s remains, an effort that is reportedly supported by the Kremlin.
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