New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that laid waste to the emperor’s vaunted Grande ...
New research finds evidence of two previously undocumented infections that likely plagued the French emperor's Grande Armée ...
When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.
Researchers identify two pathogens in the remains of soldiers in Napoleon's army. Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 ...
Scholars have debated precisely what kinds of diseases ravaged Napoleon’s troops. New DNA analysis of some soldiers’ remains ...
In 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armée marched into Russia with more than 600,000 soldiers, only to be decimated not just by battle, but by disease on a massive scale. According to new research, it was not ...