Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia in 1812. Six months later, after the army was forced to retreat, an ...

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But by December, only a fraction of the army remained alive. Historical records ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have genetically analyzed the remains of former soldiers who retreated from Russia in 1812. They detected two pathogens, those responsible for paratyphoid fever ...

An artist's representation of Napoleon's forces trudging through snow during the ruler's ill-fated military campaign of 1812. Historians have long known that as hundreds of thousands of Napoleon ...

Scientists say they've discovered traces of the deadly pathogens that ravaged Napoleon's soldiers during his doomed 1812 retreat from Russia — offering a clearer picture of the circumstances of the ...

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte mobilized an army of almost half a million soldiers to invade the territory controlled by the Russian Empire. By fall, when the emperor did not ...

In June 1812, Napoleon I led a massive force of 500,000 to 600,000 troops into Russia. After reaching Moscow without defeating the Russian army, his soldiers faced a burnt, abandoned city with ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur conducted genetic analyses on remains of soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. They detected two pathogens whose presence is consistent with symptoms described ...