A mass grave in Russia dating to the 1812 invasion by Napoleon's Grande Armée has revealed that one soldier, who suffered a horrific facial wound during combat, may have survived for two months before ...

MINSK, Belarus (AP) – Belarus held a burial ceremony Friday for 110 Napoleonic soldiers who died in a major battle in 1812 against the Russian army. Tens of thousands of French troops died in November ...

Buttons from uniforms worn by soldiers in Napoleon’s army that invaded Russia have been uncovered in Lithuania. The discoveries were made during an excavation at the site of the Great Synagogue of ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is depicted in the 1812 "Portrait of Napoleon I" by Charles Auguste Steuben. - Photo Josse/Leemage/Corbis/Getty Images Near the end of his reign ...

Two-to-three thousand soldiers from Napoleon's army were found in a mass grave in the northern suburbs of Vilnius, Lithuania in 2001. (Michel Signoli / UMR 6578 Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, EFS) By ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is undoubtedly an illustrious and intriguing figure of history. Many of his life events have attracted the awe of aficionados worldwide. Among such events is his retreat from Russia ...

Napoleon Bonaparte's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812 saw his massive "Grande Armée" almost destroyed by hunger, enemy attacks and the brutal winter. But now, scientists have identified another ...

By 1812, Napoleon was all powerful. Nearly all of Europe was under his control. He had succeeded in forbidding most of the continent from trading with Britain in an effort to bring the island nation ...