After his abdication, the victorious powers excluded chevaulegers from the French Army.
Collaboration is "a co-operation between elements of the population of a defeated state and the representatives of the victorious power".
Hard rock's loud guitars and howling vocals can convey a sense of victorious power, but not the way Alice in Chains uses them.
Above all, diplomats said, it could not appear to be imposed by victorious powers.
The fact that Britain was a victorious power in the first World War also helps to explain fascism's limited impact on the country.
The victorious powers divided the city into four sectors, analogous to the occupation zones into which Germany was divided.
After the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815 the victorious powers agreed to defend the states from the inside.
Among these was the new currency that the victorious Western powers had just introduced in their zones of occupation.
At the end of the war, the victorious powers sought to divide up the Ottoman Empire.
Visitors like the literary critic Edmund Wilson came and thought they saw not a victorious power but a defeated one.