In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the ...

New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that laid waste to the emperor’s vaunted Grande ...

The study revealed that Napoleon's soldiers suffered from several infections, exacerbated by cold, hunger, and exhaustion, ...

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

Researchers have uncovered microbial evidence in the remains of Napoleon’s soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. Genetic ...

Scholars have debated precisely what kinds of diseases ravaged Napoleon’s troops. New DNA analysis of some soldiers’ remains ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

Scientists have found evidence of multiple infectious diseases that may have played key roles in the army’s catastrophic ...