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    The Coup of 18 Brumaire (French: Coup d'État du 18 Brumaire) brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of the French First Republic. In the...
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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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  • The Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII (French: Coup d'État du 30 prairial an VII), also known as the Revenge of the Councils (French: revanche des conseils)...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    include the Spanish Civil War, the Coup of 18 Brumaire that ended the French First Republic, and the 28 May 1926 coup d'état which ended the First Portuguese...
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    France 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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    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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    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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  • Salvadoran coup d'état 1944 April 1944 Salvadoran coup attempt 1944 October 1944 Salvadoran coup d'état 1960 1960 Salvadoran coup d'état 1961 1961 Salvadoran...
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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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    executive branch of the French government—who sought his support for a coup d'état to overthrow the Constitution of the Year III. The plot included Bonaparte's...
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  • very moment Napoléon Bonaparte took power as First Consul in the coup of 18 Brumaire, he was feared by his rivals, and keenly supported by the army. They...
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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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    become estranged due to their mutual extramarital affairs. During the Coup of 18 Brumaire, he accompanied Napoleon to Saint-Cloud, where they brought the Council...
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