However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens played a central role in claiming thousands of lives. According to a study ...

Recent DNA analysis has shed new light on the catastrophic retreat of Napoleon’s Grand Army from Russia in 1812. The study ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte led his Grand Army into Russia in 1812, he commanded the largest military force Europe had ever seen ...

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

New DNA evidence from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals Napoleon's retreating Grand Armée was decimated by paratyphoid and ...

Napoleon Bonaparte’s catastrophic invasion of the Russian Empire remains one of history’s greatest military blunders. In the summer of 1812, the French emperor set out across Eastern Europe’s Neman ...

Egypt recovered 36 ancient artifacts from the United States that had been smuggled out of the country, authorities announced ...

Science and new discoveries have the power to rewrite The catastrophic retreat of Napoleon Bonaparte's army from Russia in ...

Today marks 451 years since the Order of St John commanded for the “Sacra Infermeria,” (Holy Infirmary) to be constructed in ...

A new genetic analysis of teeth from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals hidden illnesses that plagued the French emperor's ...

Genetic analysis has shed new light on one of history's deadliest military disasters — the French retreat from Russia in 1812.

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But by December, only a fraction of the army remained alive. Historical records ...