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History tells us that Napoleon Bonaparte’s most upsetting defeat came at Waterloo. But it may have actually occurred eight years earlier, after the French emperor was attacked by a relentless horde of ...

In 1812, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led a doomed army on a disastrous retreat from Russia. With food scarce, winter approaching and diseases running rampant, hundreds of thousands of ...

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Napoleon Brandford was born in a tough neighborhood in the early-1950s, and raised by a single mom. What happened next was against the odds – and that’s a major understatement. Brandford led his high ...

Thieves executed a daring daylight robbery at the Louvre museum in Paris. They stole eight priceless French royal and imperial jewels. These items represent centuries of French history and dynastic ...

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When Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes.

Genetic analysis has shed new light on one of history's deadliest military disasters — the French retreat from Russia in 1812. https://p.dw.com/p/52WAl An analysis ...

Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count. Some disease-ridden French soldiers have just received ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris has been closed for the day after thieves broke in early Sunday and stole jewelry from the Napoleon collection, French officials said. The culprits broke into the building ...