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 ...
Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia in 1812. Six months later, after the army was forced to retreat, an ...