Nobles often overthres most of the city-state monarchs with the help of coups. They would stage different events where the monarch would be protested against by the local populace. Another common and successful strategy was to create a military turnover.
In 1763, a worldwide imperial conflict called the Seven Years' War ended in resounding victory for the British Empire, which smashed its European rivals to emerge from the conflict as one of the largest and most powerful empires in world history. North America had been just one of many fronts in the global Seven Years' War, which American colonists usually called the French and Indian War in honor of their enemies in the conflict. In the end, the French and their Indian allies fell to British and colonial forces, leaving England officially in control of the whole part of North America east of the Mississippi River and north of Florida. Of course, the several hundred thousand Native Americans who inhabited the continent would not have seen it that way. But for Englishmen everywhere, the war's end was a time of triumph and liberty. Englishmen enjoyed more rights and freedoms than the subjects of any other world empire at the time. The colonists reveled in the victory they had helped the mother country to achieve. Colonists in 1763 would have thought the very idea of independence unthinkable, and probably downright mad.
The answer is Brigham Young. Walt Whitman was one of the earliest famous American poets in the mid 19th century. James K. Polk was President of the United States during the Mexican-American War. Meriwether Lewis led an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
After the Greco-Persian Wars l, Athens and Sparta were two of the largest city-states in Ancient Greece. Sparta feared that Athens would become more powerful and invaded. In the end Sparta defeated Athens.
Stalin knew the end of the fight against Germany would free up his vast armed forces to invade Japanese-held territory in Asia, such as resource-rich Manchuria. The USSR declared war after the Hiroshima bombing but before the Nagasaki bombing. It's intention was clearly to grab territory before Japan surrendered