A ceremony at a small Russian church this week honored fallen soldiers from Napoleon's 1812 retreat -- among about 100 troops unearthed during a 2019 archeological dig and now scheduled for burial.

Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia was a disastrous saga of brutal battles, blistering heat, and bitter cold that ultimately shattered his empire. From reports of cannibalism to walls built out of ...

The bodies included 120 soldiers who fought the 1812 Battle of Vyazma, wherein Russian Empire forces defeated Napoleon’s retreating army after the failed invasion of Moscow in November 1812.

Description. Alexander Mikaberidze talks about Napoleon’s escape from the Russian Army in November 1812. Bell Ringer Assignment. Describe Alexander Mikaberidze’s characterization of Napoleon.

The piece celebrates the defeat and retreat of Napoleon’s invading French army from Russia in the winter of 1812. It wasn’t an easy call, because the fiery showpiece is a melange of Russian hymns, ...

Louse-borne diseases such as typhus and trench fever devastated Napoleon's army during his ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812, killing nearly a third of his army, according to a study by French ...

In 1812, Napoleon marched into Russia with 500,000 soldiers, leading what up to then had been Europe’s largest army. By the time the French army reached Moscow, only 90,000 soldiers out of a ...