US EditionDid Disease Defeat Napoleon?
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What Really Destroyed Napoleon's Army Has Been Revealed; the Answer Is More Surprising than We Think
Recent DNA tests suggest that it was not typhus, but other infections that decimated Napoleon's army during his retreat from Russia in 1812.
Napoleon's army was the largest that Europe had ever seen, but within a few months it was destroyed. Researchers were able to gain new insights by investigating DNA from the teeth of soldiers buried in mass graves.
DNA reveals diseases that decimated Napoleon’s army during the 1812 retreat from Russia
A team of researchers has uncovered the first direct genetic evidence identifying two infectious diseases that caused the terrible losses of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army in its retreat from Russia in 1812. The findings, released as a preprint on bioRxiv, challenge a long-standing assumption that epidemic typhus was the major cause of death among the retreating […]
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