DNA Analysis Reveals Bacterial Infections Killed Napoleon's Soldiers During 1812 Retreat

Now, more than two centuries later, DNA from the soldiers' teeth is rewriting that history, suggesting the answer instead could be bacteria that cause enteric and relapsing fevers.

It's very exciting to use a technology we have today, to detect and diagnose something that was buried for 200 years

Study identifies the two pathogens that helped destroy Napoleon's Grande Armée during its 1812 retreat from Russia.

Napoleon's march on Moscow remains one of history's most catastrophic military retreats.

There was hunger and cold, but also a mysterious illness that was long thought to be typhus.