During Napoleon’s disastrous retreat from Russia in the bitter cold, his army of 600,000 men was decimated by starvation and disease. A new study identified which pathogens contributed to their demise ...

Two-to-three thousand soldiers from Napoleon's army were found in a mass grave in the northern suburbs of Vilnius, Lithuania in 2001. (Michel Signoli / UMR 6578 Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, EFS) By ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is undoubtedly an illustrious and intriguing figure of history. Many of his life events have attracted the awe of aficionados worldwide. Among such events is his retreat from Russia ...

By 1812, Napoleon was all powerful. Nearly all of Europe was under his control. He had succeeded in forbidding most of the continent from trading with Britain in an effort to bring the island nation ...