182,000 Horses Crossed the Ocean: 200 Came Back.

After the armistice of nineteen eighteen, the United States Army had roughly sixty thousand horses still standing in France. These animals had survived artillery fire, poison gas, disease, and starvation while hauling ammunition and carrying the wounded across the Western Front. Instead of bringing them home, the government sold them to French butchers, rendered them into glue and glycerine, or destroyed them outright to save money. Quarantine laws and the rising cost of animal care sealed their fate. Only about two hundred American war horses ever returned to U.S. soil. This video covers the full story of the post-World War One horse disposal scandal, the Remount Service that managed them, and how one woman named Dorothy Brooke fought to save the survivors a decade later. From the battlefield to the butcher's yard, this is the betrayal the military never wanted you to know about. #WarHorses #WWI #MilitaryHistory #HorseHistory #WorldWarOne #RemountService #CavalryHistory #AnimalWelfare #HeroicHorses #MilitaryScandal #HiddenHistory