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Nature, Published online: 24 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03487-6Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably…

When Napoleon ordered his army to retreat from Russia in October 1812, disaster ensued. Starving, cold, exhausted and struggling with sickness, an estimated 300,000 soldiers died.Researchers…

October 24, 20253 min readNapoleon’s Defeat in Russia Was Aided by Two Surprising Deadly DiseasesDisease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic…