About the color called Magenta

Yes, I wanted to tell you about Magenta today. Everyone knows what color it is, right? Why is it called that? Well, listen. Usually, as a reference Magenta considered fuchsin dye — one of the first aniline dyes. It was created in 1856 and was first widely used as an antiseptic at the battle of Magenta (1859) in Northern Italy, hence its name. Because this battle is remembered contemporaries that early in the morning, at the time when the Austrians retreated, the French realized that they had won, Napoleon III rejoiced... the officers of both armies surveyed with horror the fields that had become field hospitals. They even touched each other in three places - the mutilated bodies of the French lay next to the bodies of the Austrians. Those fields of purple moaned and screamed. And they were bandaged, operated and filled with fuchsin. The best antiseptic of the time.