Uxbridge's Leg-endry sacrifice

Genuine fake photograph of the leg on display which I totally forged.

Lord Uxbridge, also known as Henry Paget, was a British military officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars and was famously wounded at the Battle of Waterloo. The wound was severe enough to warrant the amputation of his right leg and despite the injury, Paget remained in surprisingly good spirits throughout. The surgeon who removed the appendage later remarked that during the excision Lord Uxbridge's pulse never raised above 66 bpm (lower than most people getting out of bed.) 

After this casual severance, someone present decided it appropriate to afford the limb a proper burial and even a tombstone which read: 

"Here lies the Leg of the illustrious and valiant Earl Uxbridge, Lieutenant-General of His Britannic Majesty, Commander in Chief of the English, Belgian and Dutch cavalry, wounded on the 18 June 1815 at the memorable battle of Waterloo, who, by his heroism, assisted in the triumph of the cause of mankind, gloriously decided by the resounding victory of the said day."

Mark Twain once remarked that "irreverence is the champion of liberty" Apparently not one to miss out on an opportunity, the owner of the property where the leg was buried, one Monsieur Paris, exhumed the artefact and put it on display, where visitors, including some high-profile figures, were allowed to see it. Even Lord Ubridge's son visited the attraction, rightly horrified to find the remains of his fathers' extremity on display for morbid tourists to gawp at, wanted the old scotch egg repatriated. some online sources report that it was recovered by the Uxbridge family and buried in the UK but another more interesting theory is that The amputated leg caused a "minor diplomatic incident" when the Belgian ambassador in London investigated the matter and demanded its return to England. However, possession is nine-tenths of the law and Paris declined offering instead to sell the bones to the Uxbridge family, causing further outrage. The Belgian Minister of Justice intervened, ordering the bones to be reburied, but the theory suggests they were secretly kept hidden instead and resurfaced again as late as 1934, after the death of the last Monsieur Paris in Brussels, whose widow supposedly found the bones along with documentation of their origin in his study and Fearing scandal, chucked them in a furnace to conclude this gruesome tale.