On October 28, 1940, Vassilios Tsiavaliaris became the first casualty of the Greco-Italian War, symbolizing Greece’s stand ...
History loves a good story, and battles seem to bring out the storyteller in all of us. The problem is that somewhere between ...
New research finds evidence of two previously undocumented infections that likely plagued the French emperor's Grande Armée ...
When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.
In 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armée marched into Russia with more than 600,000 soldiers, only to be decimated not just by battle, but by disease on a massive scale. According to new research, it was not ...
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Sequencing genomic material extracted from the teeth of 13 soldiers in Napoleon’s troops highlighted that more diseases than ...
Researchers uncover two previously undetected bacteria in teeth from Napoleon’s soldiers, revealing a possible combination of illness that ravaged his army in 1812.