Sentence examples for fall of the republic from inspiring English sources

The office of councillor pensionary (including the less important equivalent in Zeeland) was abolished with the fall of the republic in 1795.

The PSOE was banned following the victory of the Francisco Franco-led Nationalist forces and the fall of the Republic in 1938.

After Andrea, no Dandolo was ever doge again, but members of the family still held high offices in the Venetian service until the fall of the republic.

HBO and the BBC planned no fewer than five seasons of Rome, which set out to chronicle the fall of the republic and the birth of the empire.

The Roman Senate outlasted the fall of the Republic, the splitting of the Empire in two, repeated invasions, the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, and several centuries of intermittent Barbarian rule.

Livy (59/64 bce 17 ce), one of the greatest Roman historians, lived through the fall of the republic and the establishment of the principate by Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

With the final fall of the Florentine republic (1530 31), he was exiled and his property confiscated.

Cicero tried to halt the fall of the Roman Republic; Churchill opposed appeasement.

"The fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797 created a predisposition to embrace any sign of Venice's downfall.

In a conversation that ranged from the fall of the Roman republic to the folly of the Vietnam War, Dr. Hayne remained unbowed.

On the fall of the Venetian republic in 1797, the islands were awarded to France, whose rule was quickly ended by a Russo-Turkish force (1798 99).