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* When the Swedish army retreated from Norway after King Charles XII was shot thousands of them froze to death. The local Saami who found the bodies were not late to "re-distribute" the stuff they could find. However, this being the early 1700s and the Saami having little use for the fancy sleds (that some officers rode (and died) in) or cannon one of the most popular items to "aquire" was the soldiers' wigs. Appearantly they were really warm and the Saami used them as insulation under their fur hats.
* When the French Army began the [[Nightmare Fuel|infamous]] [[Napoleon Bonaparte|retreat from Moscow]] they came back with goods from palaces and rich homes around Moscow. They were so confident that they budgeted this into their cargo load [[Tempting Fate|at the expense of combat and survival equipment]]. This decision(or decisions by a large number of individual soldiers) had [[Understatement|somewhat disadvantageous effects.]]
* In sort of a combination of this and [[Creepy Souvenir]] after the [[Napoleonic Wars]] dentures were called,"Waterloo Teeth", because when there was nothing else to strip from a corpse they would take it's teeth (hopefully it was dead first). Disgusting as the idea was it was practical as they were real teeth and the teeth of young men, so possibly healthier (especially if the scavenger got to an officer's corpse before it was rescued).
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