Under Maj. William O. Darby, volunteers drawn heavily from the 34th Infantry Division trained in Scotland in demolitions, ...

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In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte led one of the most ambitious military campaigns in history — the invasion of Egypt. What began as a swift conquest of Alexandria soon turned into a brutal desert nightmare ...

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

A brooch fitted with nearly 100 diamonds, captured after the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, is for ...

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 ...

History loves a good story, and battles seem to bring out the storyteller in all of us. The problem is that somewhere between ...

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

The Black subject of a 19th-century portrait by Thomas Phillips has been identified, following analysis by the U.K.'s ...

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