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    bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. This occurred on 9 November 1799, which was 18 Brumaire, Year VIII...
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    PBSuccess. 1954 Paraguayan coup d'état: A military coup brings Alfredo Stroessner to power. Coup d'état of Yanaon: A coup d'état led by Dadala Raphael Ramanayya...
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    Marx's theory of historical materialism. The Eighteenth Brumaire focuses on the 1851 French coup d'état, by which Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of the...
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  • The Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII (Coup d'État du 30 prairial an VII), also known as the Revenge of the Councils (revanche des conseils) was a bloodless...
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    of revolutionary factions ruled Paris until 9 November 1799 (coup d'état du 18 brumaire), when Napoleon Bonaparte seized power as First Consul. The population...
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    A coup d'état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ; French: [ku deta]; lit. 'stroke of state'), or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization...
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    details of the royalist uprising around Toulouse. Hostile to the Coup of 18 Brumaire, he demanded explanations on the extraordinary convocation of the...
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    Monceau. 1799 Passage du Caire (shopping arcade) opens. 10 November – Coup d'état du 18 brumaire, Napoléon Bonaparte stages a coup d'état and dissolves the...
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    France's overseas territories. The "Coup of 18 Brumaire" or "Brumaire" was the coup d'état of Napoleon Bonaparte on 18 Brumaire An VIII (9 November 1799), which...
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    1799 Passage du Caire [fr] (shopping arcade) opens. 10 November – Coup d'état du 18 brumaire, Napoléon Bonaparte stages a coup d'état and dissolves the...
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    becoming a director in 1799, Sieyès was among the instigators of the Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November), which installed Napoleon Bonaparte in power. In addition...
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    from 26 October 1795 (4 Brumaire an IV) until November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the Consulate...
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    to France in November 1798. The following year, he took part in the 18 Brumaire Coup (9 November 1799). Under the Empire, he enjoyed the confidence of Napoleon...
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    Paul Barras (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    Consulate. In any case, Bonaparte met little resistance during his 18 Brumaire coup of November 1799. Barras supported the change of government, but was...
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    Guatemalan coup d'état 1930 1930 Guatemalan coup d'état 1944 Guatemalan Revolution of 1944 1954 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état 1957 1957 Guatemalan coup d'état 1958...
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    which established the form of government known as the Consulate. The coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799) had effectively given all power to Napoleon Bonaparte...
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    island of Oléron in 1799, he was set free by Bonaparte after the Coup of 18 Brumaire. In 1801, under the Consulate, he became councillor of state and...
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    President of the Council of Five Hundred. Soon afterwards, in the coup of 18 Brumaire, Napoleon led a group of grenadiers who drove the council from its...
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    private life during the Coup of 30 Prairial VII on 18 June 1799. Merlin de Douai had no share in Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire coup. Under the Consulate...
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    Constitution of the Year VIII following the Napoleon Bonaparte-led Coup of 18 Brumaire. It lasted until 1814 when Napoleon Bonaparte was overthrown and...
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    the coup d'État of 18 Brumaire neared, the motion that the "fatherland was in danger", and was expelled from the legislature on the 18th of Brumaire. Exiled...
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    executed by firing squad, six days after staging a failed republican coup d'état as Napoleon I returned from the disastrous Russian campaign in 1812....
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    Antoine Gros, Musée de la Légion d'honneur, Paris November 9: The coup d'état of 18 Brumaire begins. French troops loyal to Bonaparte occupy key points in...
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    Napoleon (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    springboard to political power. In November 1799, Napoleon engineered the Coup of 18 Brumaire against the Directory, and became First Consul of the Republic. He...
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    the Roman Empire had combined to create a Caesarist coup d'etat for General Bonaparte on 18 Brumaire. Though he espoused adherence to revolutionary precedents...
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    Minister of Finance from 18 June to 9 November 1799. After Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état against the Directory, the 18 Brumaire of 1799, he refused to...
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    led the Directory until its dissolution after the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire. When the coup d'état occurred, the senior member Barras submitted and the...
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    deportation at the time of the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor, he took part in organizing Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire Coup—alongside Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès...
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    that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many...
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    Napoleon III (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    duc de Morny, and a few close advisors quietly began to organize a coup d'état. They included minister of war Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud and officers...
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