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

New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that laid waste to the emperor’s vaunted Grande ...

According to the auction house, it is in particular a diamond hat pin, which Napoleon took with him to the legendary ...

Researchers uncover two previously undetected bacteria in teeth from Napoleon’s soldiers, revealing a possible combination of illness that ravaged his army in 1812.

The brooch, left behind after the French emperor fled Waterloo’s battlefield, will be sold to the highest auction bidder on ...

Art experts believe they have solved the mystery of a portrait of a previously unidentified black soldier that hangs in the ...

The brooch was reportedly abandoned by Napoleon himself as he fled the battlefield after his crushing defeat in 1815.

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French ...

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

Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added ...

The French emperor's failed invasion of Russia in 1812 left more than 500,000 troops dead, with many long believed to have ...

DNA from Napoleonic soldiers’ teeth uncovered two fever-causing bacteria that may have worsened the army’s fatal retreat from Russia.