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  Friday  September 6  2002    02: 13 AM

Napoleon

After 190 years the bones of Boney's army are unearthed in a mass grave in Lithuania

Thousands of corpses of the footsoldiers who perished in Napoleon's disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow have been discovered in a mass grave in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, offering a rich insight into the conditions and circumstances of history's most tragic military march. [read more]