Science and new discoveries have the power to rewrite The catastrophic retreat of Napoleon Bonaparte's army from Russia in the winter of 1812 has long been described as one of the most dramatic pages in European military history. Severe frost, hunger and typhus were considered the main culprits for the deaths of more than 300,000 soldiers of the "Grand Army". A new genetic study, carried out by a team of researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, however, brings a more complex perspective:

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