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

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

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

Sequencing genomic material extracted from the teeth of 13 soldiers in Napoleon’s troops highlighted that more diseases than previously thought affected the army.

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In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia with one of the largest armies in history—the “Grande Armée” of about half a ...

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

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

There is possibly something a bit significant in the billing given this picture, for in it are announced with equal ernpressement “Mr. and Mrs. John Gilbert.” This happy pair is evidently to take its ...

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