New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that devastated the emperor’s vaunted Grande Armée.

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

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 ...

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

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French ...

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

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

Scientists have found evidence of multiple infectious diseases that may have played key roles in the army’s catastrophic ...

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