I just read that upwards of 15,000 men went missing from the French army at the battle of Waterloo. How do so many men go missing in that era of warfare? Are they men who ran and this weren’t counted among the casualties, or something else?

by OdBx
ParallelPain

Can you give a source or a link to where you read that? Maybe the name of the units that went missing and the circumstance.

sopadepanda321

It's not just Waterloo. You see missing statistics for tons of battles. Can someone explain why?