FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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seizure of power
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a gathering of naval ships for battle
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when the economic declines
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when the leader becomes a dictator
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Detailed explanation-1: -A coup d’état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ( listen); French for ‘stroke of state’; plural coups d’état (same pronunciation)), also known as a coup or an overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers.
Detailed explanation-2: -coup d’état, also called coup, the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group.
Detailed explanation-3: -Brazilian Revolution of 1930: An armed revolution culminated in a coup d’état which ousted President Washington Luís and established the Brazilian military junta of 1930.
Detailed explanation-4: -Coup d’état means “a sudden attempt by a small group of people to take over the government usually through violence.” But in its second sense, coup means “an impressive victory or achievement that usually is difficult or unexpected": It was a major coup when the team traded for the star pitcher.
Detailed explanation-5: -A.1. A coup d’etat is a French word which is more or less synonymous to putsch in German and golpe de estado in Spanish. It is a general term which describes a method of displacing a government or supplanting a regime through the use of military violence.