As a colonial power, France was destroyed, and did not return seriously to the business of overseas conquest until it attacked Algeria in 1830.
Models for epic poetry were the works of Italian poets Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, but the themes and heroes of Spanish epics celebrated overseas conquest or defense of the empire and the faith.
The conversion of the native peoples, however, did not provide an unproblematic justification for the project of overseas conquest.
Retiring from her overseas conquests, Louise eventually moved back to be with her son.
Japan Tobacco's acquisition of Gallaher, its British equivalent, was one of many recent overseas conquests: last year the value of outbound M&A from Japan exceeded that of the bubble years of 1990 and 2000 (see chart 10).
A chairman says he negotiated for months with a Chinese mining firm, including site visits by hundreds of their staff, only to see the deal collapse because it lacked political consent.Likewise, China's government-controlled banks, which have been expanding abroad (see chart 2), are often described as indiscriminate financiers of China's overseas conquests.
Bismarck, to ward off potential French ideas of revenge, had shrewdly encouraged the republic's governments to embark on colonial conquest overseas and had negotiated alliances with all those European powers the French might otherwise have courted.
While there would be many more bumps along the way, such widespread enthusiasm marked a turning point towards British acceptance of an overseas empire of conquest.
In February 1941, however, Wavell had to send almost 60,000 of his troops overseas to try to prevent the German conquest of Greece and Crete.
Awash in more than $50 billion in cash piled up during its relentless conquest of the U.S. and other overseas markets, Toyoda may feel he has time to spare, a buffer that will let him hang on until the economic storm passes.
The United States is an empire, assembled by conquest, much like any other, he argues, although Americans' distaste for acquiring overseas territories has, for the most part, prevented it from colonising other nations.
