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The catastrophic retreat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée from Russia in 1812, which claimed the lives of approximately 300,000 of his half-million soldiers, marked the beginning of the end for his empire and European dominance.
Now, research is now offering a deeper understanding of the immense misery endured by his troops.
Scientists have extracted DNA
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