Unearth 350 skeletons of Napoleon soldiers

Archaeologists have excavated many skeletons of about 350 Napoleon soldiers who died in a failed operation against Moscow in 1812.

This place belongs to an abandoned cemetery, only to be discovered when conducting a new roundabout in Olecko, northeastern Poland.

Scientists have excavated a lot of skeletons
of Napoleon soldiers in northeastern Poland.

'The results of the analysis of bone samples taken from men buried here show many characteristics of groups of people who live on horse backs , ' said archaeologist Hubert Augustyniak.

In addition, the researchers also found jewelry, iron crosses and some coins minted between 1710 and 1842.

The special thing is that about half of them are children from the local village. Conducting tests, the team found that the diet of the people in this village was very poor, and they often had to work hard, like hard labor.

An estimated 400,000 French soldiers - many of them Polish - died in Napoleon's Moscow campaign. The bodies of the ill-fated victims are still scattered in Eastern Europe today.

Napoleon created the so-called Warsaw Territory in 1807. By 1812, Napoleon crossed the Neman River, forcing the Russian Emperor Aleksandr I to remain in the UK's Continental Blockade System, the main purpose being to avoiding Russian threats to Poland. Napoleon named this invasion the Second Polish Campaign.

However, the plan failed to force the Napoleonic army to withdraw from the Russian capital during the winter of 1812 - 1813, while marking the end of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the empire he built.