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A new genetic analysis of teeth from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals hidden illnesses that plagued the French emperor's soldiers during their disastrous 1812 retreat. As French general and ruler ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia in 1812. Six months later, after the army was forced to retreat, an ...

Remains found in a mass grave outside Vilnius in Lithuania hold vital clues to the fate of Napoleon's Grand Army and the catastrophic retreat from Moscow in 1812. Paul Britten-Austin takes up the tale ...

The story goes that during Napoleon’s Russian campaign tin buttons on the French soldiers’ uniforms disintegrated in the cold. The soldiers were too busy holding up their pants to fight. This is ...

Napoleon was a Frenchman of his time, which means he was interested in how science could do good–he just took it farther than most Kat Eschner During this week in 1943, a 26-year-old Kennedy and his ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying the king’s body enabled his ascension to the realm of the gods. According to this belief, the preserved body, known as the Ach — a luminous spirit — was ...

Memoires du General Rapp, Aide de Camp de Napoleon. London, 1823. Pontecoulant, Louis Gustave comte de. Souvenirs historiques et parlementaires du comte de Pontecoulant. 4 vols, Paris, 1861-1865.

Science fans may well become history buffs after reading the latest non-fiction offering from Elizabeth MacLeod. The Toronto author takes readers back to the gory scenes of seven “mysterious” crimes ...