1896?
The United States presidential election of November 3, 1896, saw Republican WilliamMcKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a campaign considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in American history
Constantine's primary motivation in moving the capital to Byzantium was that "<span>a. It was a strategic site which linked the western empire with the increasingly wealthy east," since this was located directly between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. </span>
He had fought several battles and then an armistice halted his movement.