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Sulla's Civil Wars

88 BCE – 82 BCE

Lucius Cornelius Sulla marched on Rome twice — the first general to do so — seizing power from the Marian faction.

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Internal conflict in the Roman Republic, c. 83-82 BC

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Sulla's Civil Wars

88 BCE – 82 BCE

Lucius Cornelius Sulla marched on Rome twice — the first general to do so — seizing power from the Marian faction. His proscriptions and dictatorship set precedents that ultimately doomed the Roman Republic.

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