Scientists recently discovered deadly bacteria in DNA from Napoleon's soldiers' teeth, revealing new causes of death during the catastrophic 1812 Russian retreat.

In June 1812, Napoleon I led a massive force of 500,000 to 600,000 troops into Russia. After reaching Moscow without defeating the Russian army, his soldiers faced a burnt, abandoned city with ...

Painting dating from 1851 entitled “Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow” by Adolph Northen, depicting the conditions of the retreat of Napoleon's army. (CREDIT: Current Biology) When Napoleon’s once ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte led his Grand Army into Russia in 1812, he commanded the largest military force Europe had ever seen — an estimated 600,000 men. By the time his battered troops stumbled out of ...

A 2006 study involving DNA from 35 other soldiers from the same cemetery detected the pathogens behind typhus and trench ...

THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA (312 pp.)—Harold Nicolson—Harcourt, Brace ($4). The retreat from Moscow was over; in a room at Fontainebleau, the defeated Emperor Napoleon meditated suicide. “Preceded by the ...