The Bastille's fall gave momentum to the rest of the French Revolution, leading to the execution of the royal family and, eventually, the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
When I was going to school, we would speak of the time between the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 400s A.D. up through the fall of Constantinople in the 1450s.
The lowest point of all came in 1975 at the end of a long decline during the Vietnam War with the fall of Saigon and America's humiliating defeat In Germany and Italy.
These are the diary entries from 21 members of a women's creative-writing group, furtively recorded in a WhatsApp chat during the year after Kabul fell.
That took Tyrion by surprise. He had been no more than an ugly boy at Casterly Rock when the city fell. " So the Sack of King's Landing was your work as well" ?
And some hold that this was not at first falsely done, but that Sauron in truth repented, if only out of fear, being dismayed by the fall of Morgoth and the great wrath of the Lords of the West.
Jefferson's followers hailed the fall of the Bastille and what followed - the rise of the French Republic - while Hamilton and the Federalists were horror-stricken.