Recent DNA analysis has shed new light on the catastrophic retreat of Napoleon’s Grand Army from Russia in 1812. The study challenges the long-held belief that extreme cold and starvation were the ...

Painting dating from 1851 entitled “Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow” by Adolph Northen, depicting the conditions of the retreat of Napoleon's army. (CREDIT: Current Biology) When Napoleon’s once ...

When Russia resumed trading with England, Napoleon prepared to invade Russia. Napoleon amassed an army of 600,000, the largest army Europe had ever seen. After a failed invasion of Moscow, the French ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have genetically analyzed the remains of former soldiers who retreated from Russia in 1812. They detected two pathogens, those responsible for paratyphoid fever ...

Fresh DNA evidence reveals Napoleon’s troops were ravaged by paratyphoid and relapsing fevers during the 1812 retreat. When Napoleon’s Grand Armée limped out of Russia in 1812, it wasn’t just the snow ...

A noisy, patriotic hullabaloo is Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky’s 1812 Overture. Depicting Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, it ends with a mixture of the Marseillaise, the Imperial Russian anthem and — so ...