Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616 - Sunpu
Peace, succession, and the misreading of fear as gentleness.
In the winter of his final year at Sunpu, the shogun who unified Japan considers what peace actually costs to maintain.
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1616 - Sunpu
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Peace, succession, and the misreading of fear as gentleness.
In the winter of his final year at Sunpu, the shogun who unified Japan considers what peace actually costs to maintain.
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In his last year at Mount Vernon, the father of a nation admits what the republic asked of him — and what it took.
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1969 - Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises
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At Colombey, having walked away from power a second time, a general asks whether France understood what he tried to build.
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1897 - Friedrichsruh
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Dismissed, ageing, and deliberately sidelined, the architect of German unification watches his successors dismantle his work.
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1955 - Hyde Park Gate, London
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After the war, after the applause, after the second stroke — a prime minister reckons with what victory actually cost.
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323 BCE - Babylon
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Dying at thirty-two in Babylon, a conqueror dictates the truth his generals will try to bury.
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1605 - Agra
Succession, universal rule, and the private humiliation of dynastic narrowing.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In Agra, in the forty-ninth year of his reign, an emperor who united faiths confronts the impossibility of succession.
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1799 - Mount Vernon
state-power
A contrasting life shaped by state power.
In his last year at Mount Vernon, the father of a nation admits what the republic asked of him — and what it took.
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1969 - Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises
state-power
A contrasting life shaped by state power.
At Colombey, having walked away from power a second time, a general asks whether France understood what he tried to build.
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1897 - Friedrichsruh
state-power
A contrasting life shaped by state power.
Dismissed, ageing, and deliberately sidelined, the architect of German unification watches his successors dismantle his work.
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