A mass grave holding soldiers from Napoleon Bonaparte's French army reveals some of the diseases that killed the Grande Armée ...

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

Historians have long blamed typhus, a deadly louse-borne disease, for the disaster. But new research suggests otherwise.

One of the first events to signal the collapse of Napoleon's reign was his crushing defeat after an invasion of Russia in ...

Scholars have debated precisely what kinds of diseases ravaged Napoleon’s troops. New DNA analysis of some solders’ remains ...

Scientists identify 2 previously unsuspected bacteria that potentially contributed to the mass death of soldiers retreating ...