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

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

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

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

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

One of the first events to signal the collapse of Napoleon's reign was his crushing defeat after an invasion of Russia in ...

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

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

New DNA evidence from Napoleon's soldiers' teeth shows diseases like paratyphoid and relapsing fever were major killers ...