Fall of Rome: Did you mean...?

Carthage was a Phoenician city-state on the coast of North Africa (the site of modern-day Tunis) which, prior the conflict with Rome known as the Punic Wars (264-146 BCE), was the largest, most affluent, and powerful political entity in the...

The First Triumvirate of ancient Rome was an uneasy alliance between the three titans Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus which, from 60 BCE until 53 BCE, dominated the politics of the Roman Republic. Alliances have always been a part of history...

Around 1450 CE, Europe and the Middle East were defined by fragmentation, declining medieval powers, and the rise of new regional states. The Byzantine Empire had contracted to Constantinople and a few outposts, while the Ottoman Empire under...

The Fall of the Titans, oil on canvas by Cornelis van Haarlem, c. 1588-90 Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhaen.

The Fall of the Alamo or Crockett's Last Stand by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, 1903. Governor's Mansion of Austin, TX.

Fall of Maximilien Robespierre on the floor of the National Convention, 27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor Year II). Oil on canvas by Max Adamo, 1870. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1, by Gibbon, Edward, London, 1777. John Adams Library (Boston Public Library)

The title page of an early edition of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), first published in 1776. (John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library)

Fall of Gog and Magog, mural by John Singer Sargent, 1916. Boston Public Library

Storming of Chapultepec in Mexico, Sept. 13th, 1847. Lithograph depicting the US Army's taking of Chapultepec castle, printed by unknown artist, possibly published by James Baillie, ca. 08 February 1848. The Battle of Chapultepec took place...