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

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But ...

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

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

In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia with one of the largest armies in history—the “Grande Armée” of about half a ...

A mass grave holding soldiers from Napoleon Bonaparte's French army reveals some of the diseases that killed the Grande Armée ...

Researchers uncover two previously undetected bacteria in teeth from Napoleon’s soldiers, revealing a possible combination of ...

Disease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers may have spurred the massive ...

When a group of French researchers set out to answer which infectious diseases helped fell the troops, they did not have much ...

Embedded in the teeth of long-dead soldiers, scientists found fragments of microbial DNA from Salmonella enterica, which is ...

Sequencing genomic material extracted from the teeth of 13 soldiers in Napoleon’s troops highlighted that more diseases than previously thought affected the army.

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