Dramatic environmental change occurred beginning in the 1870s with the final conquest of the Apaches, the discovery of massive mineral deposits (especially silver and copper), the arrival of the railroad, and huge influxes of capital from the northeastern USA and Great Britain, much of it underwriting livestock imported from surrounding regions (Dobyns 1981, Bahre 1991).
The eastern Maya were defeated in a single battle, which marked the final conquest of the northern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Between 1890 and 1893, Col. Louis Archinard launched a series of successful military operations that led to the final conquest of Ségou in 1893.
A photograph of one of the British volunteers for service with the Taliban showed him in a T-shirt blazoned with the slogan "The Final Revelation, the Final Message, the Final System, the Final Conquest: Islam" — a message as modern in its way as the medium that carried it.
If the dates given by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are accurate to within half a century, then Ælle's reign lies in the middle of the Anglo-Saxon expansion, and prior to the final conquest of the Britons.
The final conquest of the Nan Song took several years.
Philip's reign saw the final conquest and settlement of Mexico and Peru, of the Yucatan, of Chile, the uncertain and ultimately abortive conquest of Florida, the conquest of much of what is now Paraguay, and finally, in 1580, the conquest of what were called, in honour of their new ruler, Las Islas Filipinas – the Philippines.
It was recovered, however, during the final conquest of the Celtic Insubres and Boii between 198 and 191 bc.
