The husband and father of two said he realised the accident, on 20 March, was serious when he saw the blood. He said his ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a couple of unexpected pathogens may have helped hasten the soldiers' demise ...

Operation Seaspray was a military experiment that tested biological weapons over San Francisco in the 1950s. While meant to ...

New DNA evidence from Napoleon's soldiers' teeth shows diseases like paratyphoid and relapsing fever were major killers during the Russian campaign.

He wrote a history of the Irish Republican Army and directed a project that secretly collected oral histories of paramilitary ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

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In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

In a modern context, these diseases are not typically life-threatening, but Napoleon’s army was in dire straits.

Recent DNA analysis has shed new light on the catastrophic retreat of Napoleon’s Grand Army from Russia in 1812. The study ...

In Ukraine, unmanned weapons hunt the wounded and medics alike. Moving injured soldiers to safety has never been more ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte led his Grand Army into Russia in 1812, he commanded the largest military force Europe had ever seen ...