Dead soldiers’ teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon’s army
In the summer of 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of about half a million to invade Russia.
The Russians retreated, burning the countryside and using scorched-earth tactics, eventually leaving Napoleon’s troops in a ruined Moscow.
By fall, the troops began to leave for encampments along the Russian border, where an estimated 300,000 were killed by illness, extreme cold, starvation, and exhaustion.
Historical accounts have blamed a louse-borne disease, typhus, for the demise of Napoleon’s campaign.
typhus, a louse-borne disease
Autor: The study of dead soldiers’ teeth reveals the true cause of the army’s demise.
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