Researchers who analyzed DNA from the teeth of soldiers who died during the retreat from Moscow say they have identified two ...

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

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

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

Ancient DNA reveals Napoleon’s army was decimated by hidden fevers, not typhus, during the disastrous 1812 Russian invasion.

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

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have genetically analyzed the remains of former soldiers who retreated from Russia in ...

In the summer of 1812, the legendary French general Napoleon Bonaparte led an army about half a million strong to invade Russia. The Russians retreated but burned the countryside as they withdrew, ...

EADaily, October 26th, 2025. Two unexpected pathogens were among the diseases that devastated Napoleon's vaunted Grand Army.

The Louvre has transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France after an audacious daylight heist last week ...