7 sentences with “treasury”

Claudius restored the imperial treasury, depleted by Tiberius and Caligula, and maintained the Roman frontiers.

Young men still joined the army, but the system could function without a significant flow of money from the imperial treasury in Constantinople.

Another way to access the treasury of merit was to possess, or even come into contact with, holy relics (typically the bones of saints). Thus, many rulers went to great lengths to create large collections.

Fewer independent citizens meant fewer good soldiers, and Byzantium's armies thus became dominated by foreign mercenaries paid out of the imperial treasury, placing an enormous financial burden on the empire.

The viceroy left the city and headed for Cordoba, where he hoped to gather soldiers to face the British invaders. By the same route he dispatched all the metallic currency that constituted the royal treasury.

In 1667 the British King Charles II officially designated the royal treasury as the coordinating organ of British state finances and ensured that it was run by officials trained in the Dutch style of political economy.

Beresford entered the city of Buenos Aires on the afternoon of 27 June and took the fort without fighting. He immediately got most of the officials to swear an oath of allegiance to the British monarch and succeeded in seizing the royal treasury in the city of Luján, so that the gold did not reach its destination.