<P> A general election was held . The vote was for the republic . The monarchy was at an end, even while Lucretia was still displayed in the forum . </P> <P> Brutus, leaving Lucretius in command of the city, proceeded with armed men to the Roman army then camped at Ardea . The king, who had been with the army, heard of developments at Rome, and left the camp for the city before Brutus' arrival . The army received Brutus as a hero, and the king's sons were expelled from the camp . Tarquinius Superbus, meanwhile, was refused entry at Rome, and fled with his family into exile . </P> <P> That uprising resulted in the exile or Regifugium, after a reign of 25 years, of Tarquinius and his family, and the establishment of the Roman Republic, with Brutus and Collatinus (both related by blood to Rome's fifth king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) as the first consuls . </P> <P> Tarquinius and his two eldest sons, Titus and Arruns, went into exile at Caere . </P>

When the last king of rome was thrown out who took his place
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