In the wake of the bloody French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Germaine de Staël kept the ideas of freedom alive at her ...

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

A new study has found that the epidemic which contributed to the downfall of Napoleon's army during the 1812 invasion of the Russian Empire was not ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...

One of the first events to signal the collapse of Napoleon's reign was his crushing defeat after an invasion of Russia in ...

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the ...

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

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But ...

In 1813, Napoleon faced the largest coalition army in history - and the battle that would shatter his empire. Secret Service ...

A few years ago, at the start of a European vacation, I asked family members for a scheduling concession − a stop at Château de Malmaison between our Paris arrival and hotel check-in. Julien Sorel, ...