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

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

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

Researchers identify two pathogens in the remains of soldiers in Napoleon's army. Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence of paratyphoid and relapsing fever among Napoleon’s soldiers who retreated from Russia in 1812. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur have performed a genetic ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

The Russians retreated but burned the countryside as they withdrew, using scorched-earth tactics that eventually left ...

A 2006 study involving DNA from 35 other soldiers from the same cemetery detected the pathogens behind typhus and trench ...

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

The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the ...

Researchers have uncovered microbial evidence in the remains of Napoleon’s soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. Genetic ...

Genetic analysis has shed new light on one of history's deadliest military disasters — the French retreat from Russia in 1812 ...