Unrest and rebellion plagued the government until 1965, when Lieutenant General Mobutu, by then commander in chief of the national army, seized control of the country and declared himself president for five years.

It is believed that the seized vehicles ( which included 15 Belgian Army Pandur APCs leased to Beninise army troops ) and parts have been used to equip the Military of Equatorial Guinea, and such seizure are considered by some as an act of piracy.

As the German army seized Helsinki, the White Army shifted its military focus to Viipuri, taking it on 29 April 1918 with a major attack of 18, 500 men, against 15, 000 Red troopers.

The unprepared army of Kakatiya was defeated this time and the diamond was seized by the champion army of Delhi Sultanate.

Napoleon's campaigns acquired Italian pieces by treaties, as war reparations, and Northern European pieces as spoils as well as some antiquities excavated in Egypt, though the vast majority of the latter were seized as war reparations by the British army and are now part of collections of the British Museum.

In a span of less than fourth months at the start of 2012, the Malian army was defeated by the rebels who seized more than 60 % of the former Malian territory, taking all camps and position of the army, capturing and killing hundreds of Malian soldiers, while hundred others deserted or defected.

Seventeen months after al-Adid's death, Nur ad-Din had not taken any action regarding Egypt, but expected some return for the 200, 000 dinars he had allocated to Shirkuh's army which seized the country.

The army seized power for one week in July 2003, complaining of corruption and that forthcoming oil revenues would not be divided fairly.

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.

In 1978 the army seized control of the Mauritanian government and Polisario declared a cease-fire, on the assumption that Mauritania would withdraw unconditionally.

The latter having seized upon Nantes, of which the counts of Anjou held themselves to be suzerains, Fulk Nerra came and laid siege to it, routing Conan's army at the battle of Conquereuil ( 27 June 992 ) and re-establishing Nantes under his own suzerainty.

The Serbs in particular did not agree and refused to vacate any of the territory they had seized in northern Macedonia ( that is, the territory roughly corresponding to the modern Republic of Macedonia ), saying that the Bulgarian army had failed to accomplish its pre-war goals at Adrianople ( to capture it without Serbian help ) and that the pre-war agreement on the division of Macedonia had to be revised.

On May 31, as Grant's army once again swung around the right flank of Lee's army, Union cavalry seized the crossroads of Old Cold Harbor, about 10 miles northeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, holding it against Confederate attacks until the Union infantry arrived.

York was probably short of provisions in the castle and seeing that the enemy were apparently no stronger than his own army, seized the opportunity to engage them in the open rather than withstand a siege while waiting for reinforcements.

On 16 March, the army seized the presidential palace in the centre of Antananarivo.

The Free Officers seized control of all government buildings, radio stations, and police stations, as well as army headquarters in Cairo.

* January – Publius Vatinius, governor of Illyricum, seized Dyrrachium and is forced to surrender his army ( three legions ) to Marcus Junius Brutus.

Once the army arrived, however, Gongsun Yuan betrayed them, killing Sun Quan's officials Zhang Mi ( 張彌 ) and Xu Yan ( 許晏 ), whom Sun had sent to grant the bestowments and seized their troops.

On 8 January 1746 ( OS ) 19 January 1746 ( NS ), the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie seized control of the town but failed to take the Castle.

By the time the items arrived in Taiwan, the Communist army had already seized control of the Palace Museum collection so not all of the collection could be sent to Taiwan.

While political intrigues on Coruscant delayed a Republic response, Thrawn seized all but 21 of the ships, and crewed them with his massive new army of clones.

) Later, when Vortigern's power has faded, the two brothers return from exile with a large army, destroy Vortigern and become friends with Merlin.

The following year, Sparta sent an army into Boeotia, reviving the power of Thebes in order to help hold the Athenians in check.

The army remained in power for 4 years ; on June 14, 1970, the Voltans ratified a new constitution that established a 4-year transition period toward complete civilian rule.

In the past, the Bishop of Durham, known as a prince bishop, had extensive viceregal powers within his northern diocese — the power to mint money, collect taxes and raise an army to defend against the Scots.

Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionist's Ulster Volunteers led by Sir Edward Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster and the threat of mutiny by army officers in Ireland in 1914 ( see Curragh Incident ).

Among the country ’ s five presidents since independence in 1960, three have been former army chiefs-of-staff, who have taken power through coups d ’ état.

Following Bokassa, David Dacko was restored in 1981, only to be overthrown once again by his new army chief of staff, General André Kolingba after only a few months in power.

In 721, the emir of Córdoba had built up a strong army from Morocco, Yemen, and Syria to conquer Aquitaine, the large duchy in the southwest of Gaul, nominally under Frankish sovereignty, but in practice almost independent in the hands of the Odo the Great, the Duke of Aquitaine, since the Merovingian kings had lost power.

Cannon were crucial in Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power, and continued to play an important role in his army in later years.

The shift to divine sanctification from military acclamation took the power to appoint emperors away from the army.

He suggested that it was not a papal banner to the King but a papal banner to the Churchly legate in the North, more specifically to archbishop Andreas Sunesøn, which he – without the knowledge of the King – brought with him on the King's crusade in the Baltic countries, in an effort to make the army take on a Christian symbol ( over the king's symbol ) and thereby strengthen the power of the church.

Provincial governors had a great deal of power in local matters, and an army was placed at their disposal to enforce tax collection and suppress dissent.

According to his autobiography, Abdur Rahman had three goals: subjugating the tribes, extending government control through a strong, visible army, and reinforcing the power of the ruler and the royal family.

But, because Amanullah controlled both the national treasury and the army, Amanullah was well situated to seize power.

In this way the army and its successful general, Napoleon Bonaparte eventually gained total power.

The Roman military was a land-based army while Carthage was primarily a naval power.

By autumn 1917, in the power vacuum following the dissolution of parliament and in the absence of a stable government or a Finnish army, such forces began assuming a more military character.

On March 23, 1982, army troops commanded by junior officers staged a coup d ' état to prevent the assumption of power by General Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the hand-picked candidate of outgoing President and General Romeo Lucas García.

James also created a large standing army and employed Catholics in positions of power within it.

In contrast to the chaotic political climate of 1946, the campaign of 1950 proceeded under the implicit understanding that only a strong candidate backed by both the army and the elite would be able to take power.

Thousands of Scots, mainly Lowlanders, took up positions of power in politics, civil service, the army and navy, trade, economics, colonial enterprises and other areas across the nascent British Empire.

The army, which had tasted power and provided many of the leading proponents of both sides, became a factor to be reckoned with, prone to intervene in politics.

The May 1958 seizure of power in Algiers by French army units and French settlers opposed to concessions in the face of Arab nationalist insurrection led to the fall of the French government and a presidential invitation to de Gaulle to form an emergency government to forestall the threat of civil war.

Many coins issued during Elagabalus ' reign bear the inscriptions Fides Exercitus or Fides Militum, emphasising the loyalty of the army as the basis of imperial power.