When Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes.

But the Russian Empire had been resisting his efforts to cut off all trade with Britain. That summer, he ordered his army, some 600,000 strong, to invade Russia. It would prove to be a terrible ...

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Napoleon Brandford was born in a tough neighborhood in the early-1950s, and raised by a single mom. What happened next was against the odds – and that’s a major understatement. Brandford led his high ...

In 1812, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led a doomed army on a disastrous retreat from Russia. With food scarce, winter approaching and diseases running rampant, hundreds of thousands of ...

Microsoft has launched new features for its AI "Copilot Mode" in Edge, following a raft of recent new offerings from competing browsers. First announced in July, Copilot Mode brings a chat interface ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is depicted in the 1812 "Portrait of Napoleon I" by Charles Auguste Steuben. - Photo Josse/Leemage/Corbis/Getty Images Near the end of his reign ...

Scientists have uncovered new DNA evidence that challenges long-held assumptions about Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia. As his Grande Armée – nearly half a million strong – advanced ...

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 ...

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French emperor’s troops as they withdrew from Russia. By Gina Kolata Napoleon’s army ...

Genetic analysis has shed new light on one of history's deadliest military disasters — the French retreat from Russia in 1812. https://p.dw.com/p/52WAl An analysis ...

Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count. Some disease-ridden French soldiers have just received ...