Colonel Azali Assoumani became president following a military coup in 1999.

In 2001, Guido Papalia, Italian attorney of Verona, prosecuted Denard for having tried to recruit mercenaries in the far-right Italian movement ( through Franco Nerozzi ) in order to make a coup against Colonel Azali Assoumani, the current president, also opposed to his return to the Comoros.

In January 2002, it was agreed, despite some opposition, that he would replace Colonel Azali Assoumani as interim head of state and oversee the Transitional Government of National Unity in the run-up to the legislative and presidential elections.

the Colonel fled to the friendly haven of the Dominican dictatorship as soon as Castro seized power.

Caballero, also boycotting the alliance, plotted to overthrow civilian rule and succeeded when Colonel Juan Antonio Ezcurra seized power in 1902.

Colonel Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, who was to escort it to England, claimed later that he had personally seized it from Menou and carried it away on a gun-carriage.

On May 25, 1969, several young officers, led by Colonel Jaafar an Nimeiri, seized power, thus bringing the army into political control for the second time.

During the American civil war goods seized by armies were sold at auction by the Colonel of the division.

The Puritans seized the Earl and took him before Colonel Scroope, who ordered him to be shackled and imprisoned under guard.

Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Reed of the 12th Indiana Calvary seized the town on May 29, 1864 during the American Civil War.

On December 29, Canadian loyalist Colonel Sir Allan MacNab and Captain Andrew Drew of the Royal Navy commanding a party of militia, acting on information and guidance from Alexander McLeod that the vessel belongs to Mackenzie, crossed the international boundary and seized the Caroline, chased off the crew, towed her into the current, set her afire, and cast her adrift over Niagara Falls, after killing one black American named Amos Durfee in the process.

In August a land force commanded by Colonel Winthrop set off for Montreal, while a naval force, commanded by the future governor of Massachusetts, Sir William Phips ( who earlier on 11 May had seized the capital of French Acadia, Port Royal ), set sail for Quebec via the Saint Lawrence River.

On March 23, with the support of fellow soldiers, General Horacio Egberto Maldonado Schaad and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez, Ríos Montt seized power in a coup d ' état, that was quietly backed by the CIA, deposing General Romeo Lucas García.

In 1934 pro-Zveno officers like Colonel Damyan Velchev and Colonel Kimon Georgiev seized power and established an authoritarian regime.

During the Khmelnytskyi Uprising the town was seized by the forces of Colonel Kolodko.

On 29 July 1966, while Ironsi was staying at Government House in Ibadan, northern troops led by Major Theophilus Danjuma and Captain Martin Adamu stormed the building, seized Ironsi and his host, Lieutenant Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, and subsequently had the two men stripped naked, flogged and beaten, and finally shot.

Other northern troops, led by Lieutenant Colonel Murtala Mohammed, the real leader of the counter-coup and who later succeeded Yakubu Gowon as head of state, then seized the Ikeja airport in Lagos.

On February 21, 1921, Ahmad Shah was pushed aside in a military coup by his Minister of War and commander of the Cossack garrison, Colonel Reza Khan, who subsequently seized the post of Prime Minister.

By about 5: 30 am, the Boers seized the police barracks on the outskirts of Mafeking, killing one and capturing the garrison's second-in-command, Colonel C. O. Hore and 29 others.

* In April 2003, U. S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Allen West ( currently a Congressman serving Florida's 22nd congressional district ) had an Iraqi police officer named Yehiya Kadoori Hamoodi seized and brought in for questioning based on allegations he was planning an imminent attack on Mr. West's unit.

By 10 and 11 November, federal troops seized the city of Estavayer-le-Lac, the enclaves of Fribourg in the canton of Vaud, and most of the district of Murten without resistance, with the Fribourgeois troops under Colonel Philippe de Maillardoz retreating to defend the capital.

Shortly after the newly-established Supreme Revolutionary Council ( SRC ) led by Major General Siad Barre, Lieutenant Colonel Salaad Gabeyre Kediye and Chief of Police Jama Korshel seized power.

A battalion of the Japanese 51st Regiment ( which was commanded by Colonel Kimio Omoto ) seized the vital Nungshigum Ridge, which overlooked the main airstrip at Imphal.

The latter had been placed under arrest at the instance of Cromwell and of Colonel John Hutchinson, the governor of Nottingham Castle ; he escaped to Hull, but both father and son were seized by the citizens and afterwards executed.

Although the massive works were seized and dismantled after the war ended, the commandant, Colonel G. W.

The same day, Colonel Jacques Lefranc's 2, 000 French republican troops seized the Izpegi Ridge.

* 1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d ' état against Juan Bosch.

On 1 January 1966, following a swift and almost bloodless coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumed power as president of the Republic.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

After originally rising to power through a military coup d ' etat in 1969, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's governance of Libya became increasingly centric on the teachings of his Green Book, which he published in the mid-1970s chapter by chapter as a foundation for a new form of government.

On October 12, 1998 twenty-five soldiers in the Sierra Leone army, including Corporal Tamba Gborie, Brigadier Hassan Karim Conteh, Colonel Samuel Francis Koroma, Major Kula Samba and Colonel Abdul Karim Sesay, were executed by firing squad after they were convicted at a court martial in Freetown for orchestrating the 1997 coup that ousted president Kabbah from power.

Alongside Barre, the Supreme Revolutionary Council ( SRC ) that assumed power after President Sharmarke's assassination was led by Lieutenant Colonel Salaad Gabeyre Kediye and Chief of Police Jama Korshel.

* September 1 – A coup in Libya ousts King Idris, and brings Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power.

** Colonel Joseph Mobutu takes power in Republic of the Congo via a military coup.

: c. SAASS's first director, Colonel William Fortner, stated in 1991 that the new school ( originally called the School of Advanced Airpower Studies ) " will be similar to the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth ", with additional focuses on air power topics.

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg ( 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944 ), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power.

However, power rested chiefly with the occupiers, represented locally by the military governor, Colonel Geoffrey Day.

This continued until 1922 when Egypt was granted its independence, but British troops remained in the country and true self rule did not occur until 1952 with the rise to power of Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser.

He returned to Baghdad in August 1937 and began plotting his return to power, in collaboration with Colonel Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh.

After seizing power, Qasim assumed the post of Prime Minister and Defense Minister, while Colonel Arif was selected Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister.

The Supreme Revolutionary Council ( SRC ) that assumed power was led by Major General Barre, Lieutenant Colonel Salaad Gabeyre Kediye and Chief of Police Jama Korshel.

The Armée de Libération Nationale ( ALN ) commanders and the GPRA ( Gouvernement Provisionel de la République Algérienne ) struggled for power, including an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss Colonel Houari Boumédiènne, chief of staff of the ALN in Morocco.

During his retirement years, Colonel Bank played a quiet but critical role in warning the nation about the risks of terrorism and modern technology and he is largely responsible for the high level of security at U. S. nuclear power plants since the early 1970s.

In the ensuing Congo Crisis, the CIA-backed Colonel Mobutu quickly mobilized his forces to seize power through a military coup d ' état.

The insurgents, commanded by Colonel Francisco Caamaño, removed the junta from power but on April 28, with United States assistance in the civil war dispatching 42, 000 troops to the island.