Last fall, construction workers in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, uncovered one of the largest mass graves of Napoleonic soldiers ever found. Discovered on the site of a former Soviet military base, ...

Remains found in a mass grave outside Vilnius in Lithuania hold vital clues to the fate of Napoleon's Grand Army and the catastrophic retreat from Moscow in 1812. Paul Britten-Austin takes up the tale ...

By 1812, Napoleon was all powerful. Nearly all of Europe was under his control. He had succeeded in forbidding most of the continent from trading with Britain in an effort to bring the island nation ...

Paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever bacteria detected Study involved DNA extracted from mass grave in Vilnius Napoleon's Grande Armée retreated from Russia in 1812 Oct 27 (Reuters) - The retreat ...

VILNIUS (Lithuania): Thousands of corpses of the footsoldiers who perished in Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow have been discovered in a mass grave in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, ...

University of Central Florida bioarchaeologist Dr. Tosha Dupras describes what she found while studying the remains of soldiers from Napoleon’s army that were unearthed from a mass grave in Lithuania.

New DNA evidence from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals Napoleon's retreating Grand Armée was decimated by paratyphoid and relapsing fevers in 1812. Microscopic pathogens, likely spread through ...

Thousands of corpses of the footsoldiers who perished in Napoleon's disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow have been discovered in a mass grave in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, offering a rich insight ...

Arunas Barkus, an anthropologist, pokes at a leg bone in a pile of skeletal remains, tagged No 151, on an autopsy table at Vilnius University. The bones belong to a victim of a catastrophic military ...

In a quiet, small town in eastern Austria lies a mass grave containing possibly thousands of soldiers who died at battle during the Napoleonic wars. Approximately 55,000 soldiers are said to have died ...

PARIS -- For decades, the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte has been debated and studied. Now a French historian is locked in an uphill battle against the government over a DNA test he says could end the ...

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