With his business empire destroyed and his vast fortune gone, he nevertheless vowed to continue his fight against Vladimir V. Putin, then Russia's president, from his prison cell.
In 1956, a fading British Empire destroyed its prestige by attacking Suez.
In the early 500s BCE--roughly 2,500 years ago--the Babylonian empire destroyed the temple in Jerusalem and left the city in charred ruins.
The world was remade with the Soviet folly in Afghanistan, a Communist empire destroyed and the West's pre-eminence assured.
The slow motion, but accelerating, train wreck that is global warming is going to reach a point before too long where, just as when the Romans withdrew, their capital of empire destroyed by terrorists (sorry, that should read barbarians), civilization is going to collapse.
As a result of this military strategy, the Tang grew to become one of the largest of all the Chinese empires, destroying the Göktürks of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate and acquiring territory stretching all the way to Kazakhstan.
In March 1941, Hitler addressed his army leaders, detailing his intention to smash the Soviet Empire and destroy the Bolshevik intelligentsia and leadership.
A second Empire was destroyed at its mooring during a Japanese air attack on Broome, Western Australia, on 3 March; another Empire was impressed from Qantas to replace the lost aircraft.
Changamire's empire was destroyed by the coming of the Ngoni and Ndebele tribes during the Mfecane (a period of vast migrations occasioned by Zulu wars in South Africa).
