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

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

DNA from Napoleonic soldiers’ teeth uncovered two fever-causing bacteria that may have worsened the army’s fatal retreat from Russia.

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But ...

New research finds evidence of two previously undocumented infections that likely plagued the French emperor's Grande Armée ...

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

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

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

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

Disease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers may have spurred the massive ...

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