Recent News: What killed Napoleon’s army? Scientists find clues in DNA from fallen soldiers’ teeth OCTOBER 24, 202511:00 AM ET https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/24/nx-s1-5582719/napoleon-war-russia-pathogens-disease-1812 Logistics In Lynch Bennett’s article The Grand Failure: How Logistics of Supply Defeated Napoleon in 1812, he points to logistical errors as a primary and often overlooked reason for Napoleon’s “Grand Failure” to invade Russia in 1812. As the popular idiom states “the devil is in the detail”; devilish details grew large and unruly, details that Napoleon neglected to anticipate. He was blinded by ambition and hubris, fed by his past accomplishments of conquest; he had by 1812 conquered the whole of continental Europe. The logistical difficulties involved in supplying his…