{"id":219864,"date":"2025-08-12T00:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/napoleons-soldiers-died-from-paratyphoid-fever-on-retreat-from-russia"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:11:44","slug":"napoleons-soldiers-died-from-paratyphoid-fever-on-retreat-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/napoleons-soldiers-died-from-paratyphoid-fever-on-retreat-from-russia","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon\u2019s soldiers died from paratyphoid fever on retreat from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q-hr-Qc4Dz0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During Napoleon\u2019s disastrous retreat from Russia in the bitter cold, his army of 600,000 men was decimated by starvation and disease. A new study identified which pathogens contributed to their demise.<\/p>\n<p>In June 1812, Napoleon I invaded Moscow with 500,000 to 600,000 soldiers, hoping to conquer Russia. However, finding themselves isolated in a ruined city, they decided to retreat that fall, according to study\u2019s authors. Little did they know, however, that the Russian winters would be more brutal than the enemy soldiers\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Napoleon\u2019s disastrous retreat from Russia in the bitter cold, his army of 600,000 men was decimated by starvation and disease. A new study identified which pathogens contributed to their demise. In June 1812, Napoleon I invaded Moscow with 500,000 to 600,000 soldiers, hoping to conquer Russia. However, finding themselves isolated in a ruined city, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}