When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story. Historians have debated for more than two centuries over which diseases ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. But after winning a costly victory at Borodino and occupying Moscow, Napoleon's invitation to Russian Emperor Alexander to ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s once-mighty army left Russia battered, frostbitten, and starving. The infamous retreat claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but until recently, no one could say ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two-to-three thousand soldiers from Napoleon's army were found in a mass grave in the northern suburbs of Vilnius, Lithuania in 2001. (Michel Signoli / UMR 6578 Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, EFS) By ...

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 ...

NAPOLEON’S RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN (306 pp.)—Philippe-Paul de Ségur—Hough-ion Mifflin ($5). Count de Ségur’s famed diary of Napoleon’s Russian campaign is not just another book about Bonaparte; it is the ...

Napoleon I led an army of around 550,000 soldiers to invade Russia in June 1812, and though they made it to Moscow, they did so without achieving a decisive victory. The army was faced with a ...

WITH NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA—General de Caulaincourt—Morrow ($3.75). General Armand de Caulaincourt, first Duke of Vicenza, was born in Picardy in 1773, became a soldier at the age of 14, a brevetted ...