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, ...

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

Historians have long blamed typhus, a deadly louse-borne disease, for the disaster. But new research suggests otherwise.

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

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

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

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

The brooch, made of nearly 100 diamonds, was left behind by Napoleon Bonaparte after he fled Waterloo’s battlefield to return ...

An array of paintings, as well as textiles, films and handblown glass, will be on display across the French capital this ...

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When veteran observers resort to a frame-by-frame analysis to confirm the fractions of a race, you know that something out of the ordinary has happened. That was the case with the Champagne Stakes (G1 ...