In 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armée marched into Russia with more than 600,000 soldiers, only to be decimated not just by battle ...

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 ...

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

The study revealed that Napoleon's soldiers suffered from several infections, exacerbated by cold, hunger, and exhaustion, which led to the army's defeat by the Russians in 1812.

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

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 ...