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What Did Political Leaders Ignore When They Invoked the Roman Republic? - The Roman Republic as a Revolutionary Toolbox | Sleepy Facts About History
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When George Washington resigned his military commission in 1783 and returned to his farm, his contemporaries immediately called him Cincinnatus. This comparison to the legendary Roman farmer-dictator who saved his city and then gave up power highlights a fascinating historical puzzle. How did a republic that collapsed two thousand years earlier become a revolutionary toolbox for Dutch rebels, English parliamentarians, American founders, French Jacobins, and Latin American liberators?
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