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After 1868 that center grew even stronger, when the movement known as the Meiji Restoration overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and the imperial court moved to Edo.
At the south end of the park is the statue of Saigo Takamori, leader of the imperial army that overthrew the shogunate in 1868.
, Buckley) argue that Gandhi and JP II overthrew tyranny.
Shahjahan’s son was Aurangzeb (1658–1707), who overthrew his father and imprisoned him in the Agra fort for the last years of his life.
Constantine the Great (who was a convert to Christianity) and Licinius ruled east and west respectively, until in 324 Constantine overthrew his pagan ally and reunited the empire.