French officials from French embassy in Moscow arrange remains of Russian and French soldiers who died during Napoleon's 1812 retreat, in communal coffins during a ceremony in a small church in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The remains of French and Russian soldiers who died more than 200 years ago during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow were laid to rest on February 13 in a cemetery in a town in the Smolensk region. The ...

The catastrophic retreat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée from Russia in 1812, which claimed the lives of approximately 300,000 of his half-million soldiers, marked the beginning of the end for ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur conducted genetic analyses on remains of soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. They detected two pathogens whose presence is consistent with symptoms described ...

This massive study of Napoleon's famous Russian campaign may rank as the best recent study in English. Napoleon's exclusion of English trade from the Continent and Czar Alexander's territorial ...