In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli critically analyzes the powers of a prince and suggests various ways to conquer and maintain hereditary and new principalities effectively, such as living in the land newly possessed and devastating your entire enemy, being aware of your own behavior, and tactfully determining your personal staff and allies. He continues to support his ideas not by using moral or ethical reasons, but rather by historically showing the defects of former princes, especially those in Italy, during their reign and how his ideas would serve as simple solutions and create less chaos in the country.

One of the many methods Machiavelli presents is the idea of residing in your territory and decimating your enemy and those who had put you in power as soon as possible. Especially when governing a new principality, it reduces the danger of losing the new land and eliminates any presence...