Archive - Purple History

From Power to the Executioner’s Block: The story of Flavius Stilicho

The half-Roman general who kept the Western Empire afloat

Aug 18 •

From Bankruptcy to the Bastille: The Road to the French Revolution (#3)

The Estates General and the Storming of the Bastille

Aug 8 •

July 2025

June 2025

Friedland: The Battle that Made Napoleon the Master of Europe

The story of how Napoleonic France became the hegemon of the Old Continent

Jun 18 •

May 2025

Paris 1871: The Commune and the Crisis of the French Republic

When the French capital revolted against its own government

May 29 •

Was Emperor Justinian responsible for the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire?

Between Glory and Ruin: The Double Legacy of Justinian I

May 16 •

Mehmed the Conqueror Explained

The Ottoman Sultan Who Ended the Roman Empire

May 6 •

The Tetrarchy Explained: Creation, Functioning and Collapse

A bold Imperial experiment to stabilize the crumbling Roman Empire

May 1 •

April 2025

Belisarius: The Last Great General of Rome

The sword of Emperor Justinian who nearly restored the Roman Empire

Apr 29 •

Blades by the Nile: Napoleon's Forgotten Campaign

Napoleon's eastern fiasco- bold, bloody, and buried under the sand of time.

Apr 17 •

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