Fox, continuing to bask in the glory of Empire, ordered something called Shots Fired straight to series.
In ancient China, for example, the emperor Shih huang-ti, a member of the Ch'in dynasty and ruler of the first unified Chinese empire, ordered that historical records other than those of the Ch'in be destroyed so that history might be seen to begin with his dynasty.
Almost 200 years have elapsed since the British parliament voted on 7 June 1816 to purchase the collection from Lord Elgin, the Scotsman who as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire ordered the frieze to be torn from the Parthenon and shipped to England.
The Russian Empire ordered a partial mobilization one day later and the German Empire mobilized on 30 July 1914.
Twelve days later, Japan issued a warning to Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire, ordering him to withdraw the German troops from their base at Tsingtao, China.
Perhaps the most infamous such story takes us back to 1519 when Captain Hernán Cortés, the Spanish colonizer who headed the expedition leading to the fall of the Aztec Empire, ordered his men to burn his ships upon arrival in Mexico.
The empire represented order and stability, ideals that appealed to many monks.
Together with Schwarzenberg, who had become prime minister and foreign minister in 1848, Franz Joseph set out to set his empire in order.
But the most surprising thing was the wording in the crimson ring: FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE, this order of chivalry's motto.
Their profligate lending to other parts of the state empire, in order to keep the economy booming after the financial crisis, will revive a bad-debt problem that China thought it had licked years ago.
