Think of a Swiss Army Knife, and a few defining features probably come to mind. Red scales. That classic cross-emblazoned shield logo. A range of silver implements, including a blade and bottle opener ...

When Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes.

But the Russian Empire had been resisting his efforts to cut off all trade with Britain. That summer, he ordered his army, some 600,000 strong, to invade Russia. It would prove to be a terrible ...

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In 1812, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led a doomed army on a disastrous retreat from Russia. With food scarce, winter approaching and diseases running rampant, hundreds of thousands of ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia in 1812. Six months later, after the army was forced to retreat, an ...

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French emperor’s troops as they withdrew from Russia. By Gina Kolata Napoleon’s army ...

Major General Waidi Shuaibu has been appointed as the new Chief of Army Staff by President Bola Tinubu. Major General Shuaibu did not stumble on prominence by accident but intricately sketched his way ...

Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count. Some disease-ridden French soldiers have just received ...

During Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk once again threatened investors that he would walk away if they didn’t agree to award him an astonishing $1 trillion payout. The ...

Musk also took to X, sounding the alarm on governance. About half of all publicly-traded Tesla shares are controlled by passive index funds that outsource their voting to ISS and Glass Lewis, he notes ...

Elon Musk needs Tesla investors to vote for his $1 trillion payday so that he can control a robot army. Yes, really, that’s what he said. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to unrealistic ...