Sentences with 'overthrowing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overthrowing and other words derived from it.
• « The timing proved advantageous. Since the black slaves in the French colony of Haiti had succeeded in overthrowing the brutal plantation regime, Napoleon could no longer hope to restore the empire lost with France's defeat in the French and Indian War (1754-1763). His vision of Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley as a source of food for Haiti, the world's most profitable sugar island, had failed. The emperor therefore agreed to the sale in early 1803. »
• « Many of those urging its annexation believed that Cuba should become part of the United States to prevent it from going the way of Haiti, with black slaves overthrowing their masters and creating another black republic, a prospect that horrified many in the United States. »