In the olden times of Junior football, the purpose of the wire mesh surrounding the pitch at Huntershill Sports Hub would have been to protect supporters from belligerent centre halves.

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

His invasion of Russia was a bad idea anyway, but two ruthless pathogens that ripped through Bonparte’s army probably didn’t ...

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 ...

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.

The study revealed that Napoleon's soldiers suffered from several infections, exacerbated by cold, hunger, and exhaustion, ...

A new genetic analysis of teeth from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals hidden illnesses that plagued the French emperor's ...

Sequencing genomic material extracted from the teeth of 13 soldiers in Napoleon’s troops highlighted that more diseases than ...

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