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Angola's war for independence did not end in a military victory for either side, but was suspended as a result of a coup in Portugal that replaced the Caetano regime.
The first president of Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, did not last long before being ousted in a coup by Ali Soilih, an atheist with an Islamic background.
Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix, married to his daughter Claudia Antonia, was only descended from Octavia and Antony on one side — not close enough to the Imperial family to prevent doubts ( that did not stop others from making him the object of a coup attempt against Nero a few years later ).
Chile's conservative party, the National Party disbanded in 1973 following a military coup and did not re-emerge as a political force following the subsequent return to democracy.
Ambivalent about the removal of Gorbachev, Nazarbayev did not condemn the coup attempt until its second day.
As a political journalist, Zola did not hide his dislike of Napoleon III, who had successfully run for the office of President under the constitution of the French Second Republic, only to misuse this position as a springboard for the coup d ' état that made him emperor.
Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.
Though the coup of January 22 did not bode well for a genuinely democratic approval process for the new constitution ( and the French would have preferred going the " safe " way of approval by the rump-Assembly ) the plebiscite that started on March 17 ( in the usual form of elections in " primary " assemblies of about 100-500 voters ) had a reasonably democratic quality.
Other than the coup of June, 1798, the Augereau-coup did present a sharp break with the recent past.
The deposition of Richard II in 1399 did not affect Whittington and it is thought that he merely acquiesced in the coup led by Bolingbroke.
Angola's war for independence did not end in a military victory for either side, but was suspended as a result of a coup in Portugal, that replaced the Caetano regime with a Communist junta.
At Samos, however, the coup did not go forward so smoothly.
Stauffenberg did not engage in any coup plot at this time.
At that time, the Qing possessed the newest model of navy battleships, the Dingyuan, and thought that the Japanese navy was no match, and even at the time of the Gaspin coup 2 years previous, Japan was defeated by the Qing, so at that time, the Qing dynasty did have superior military power.
Khiêm and Thiệu sought out U. S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and sought a private endorsement for a coup, but Taylor did not want any more changes in leadership, fearing a corrosive effect on the already unstable government.
Thiệu took a cautious approach, as didand Cang, and they were pre-empted by Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, an undetected communist double agent, who launched a coup with Phát on a hardline Catholic platform without U. S. backing.
In 1952, SBS teams were held at combat readiness in Egypt in case Gamal Abdel Nasser's coup turned more violent than it did.
The SBS were also alerted during the Suez Crisis of 1956 and coup against King Idris I of Libya ( 1959 ), but in both cases they did not see action.
A more outlandish rumour was that Lino Oviedo threatened Rodríguez with a grenade if he did not launch the coup.
Even this < span lang =" fr "> coup d ' état </ span > did not secure harmony between the executive and the legislature.
The civilian government, especially Kōichi Kido and Fumimaro Konoe also did not favor Koiso, due to Koiso's previous involvement with the ultranationalist Sakura Kai and its attempted coup d ' état against the government in 1931 ( i. e. the " March Incident ").
He had to leave France after the coup d ' état ; nor did he re-enter political life during the Second Empire until 1869, when he founded a moderate opposition journal at Toulouse.
After the coup d ' état of December 2, 1851, he still retained his office of procureur-general, and did not resign it until effect was given to the decrees confiscating the property of the house of Orléans.
In 1975, two years after the coup, he met with Pinochet for 45 minutes, where the general “ indicated very little indeed about his own or the government ’ s feeling ” and the president asked Friedman to write him a letter laying out what he thought Chile ’ s economic policies should be, which he also did.
Attracting such a high-profile actor as Davison was as much of a coup for the programme's producers as getting the role was for him, but he did not renew his contract because he feared being typecast.

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In order to preempt Ross's victory, the National Socialists mounted a coup d ' état that was intended to take down the rightwing government of Arturo Alessandri Palma and place Ibáñez in power.
On June 13, 2008, a small majority of members of the House of Ariki attempted a coup, claiming to dissolve the elected government and to take control of the country's leadership.
However, Khrushchev and Malenkov were able to gather enough support for Beria's ouster, but only when a rumour of a potential coup led by Beria began to take hold within the party leadership.
In some cases the deposed head of state is allowed to leave into exile following a coup or other change of government, allowing a more peaceful transition to take place.
About the coup, Australia's Foreign Minister at the time, Alexander Downer, said that the military were " slowly trying to take control " and pressure the PM to resign.
It was reported that in 2006 Fiji's Prime Minister Qarase asked Australia's Prime Minister John Howard for military assistance should a coup take place, but Howard declined.
However, Göring sent a telegram on 23 April, asking permission to take over the leadership of the Reich — an act that Hitler, under the prodding of Martin Bormann, interpreted as a demand to step down or face a coup.
The coup pre-empted King Idris ' instrument of abdication dated 4 August 1969 to take effect 2 September 1969 in favour of the Crown Prince, who had been appointed regent following the king's departure for Turkey.
HT does not engage in armed jihad or vote-getting, but works to take power through " ideological struggle " to change Muslim public opinion, and in particular through elites who will " facilitate " a " change of the government ," i. e. launch a bloodless coup.
The outlawing of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan ( CPK ), which followed the attempted coup, also permitted Nazarbayev to take virtually complete control of the republic's economy, more than 90 % of which had been under the partial or complete direction of the central Soviet government until late 1991.
Mitsuhide chose that time to take a unit of his men and surrounded the Honnō-ji while sending another unit of Akechi troops to assault Myōkaku-ji, initiating a full coup d ' état.
In 1963, the Military Committee of the Syrian Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party spent most of its time plannining to take power through a conventional military coup.
* November 25 – November 26 – A group of mercenaries led by Mike Hoare take over Mahe airport in the Seychelles in a coup attempt.
As the capital of an Axis country and a major transit point for Axis troops en route to the Eastern Front, Bucharest suffered heavy damage during World War II due to Allied bombings, and, on 23 August 1944, was the site of the royal coup which brought Romania into the Allied camp, suffering a short period of Luftwaffe bombings as well as a failed attempt by German troops to take the city by force.
* April 12 – Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau stage a coup d ' état and take control of the capital city, Bissau.
During the Congo Crisis, Joseph-Désiré Mobutu led a coup against the nationalist government of Patrice Lumumba in 1960 to take control of the government of Congo-Léopoldville ; he soon became the army chief of staff.
Article 1. 1 is similar to Article 47 of Protocol I, however Article 1. 2 broadens the definition to include a non-national recruited to overthrow a " Government or otherwise undermining the constitutional order of a State ; or Undermin the territorial integrity of a State ;" and " Is motivated to take part therein essentially by the desire for significant private gain and is prompted by the promise or payment of material compensation ..." – under Article 1. 2 a person does not have to take a direct part in the hostilities in a planned coup d ' état to be a mercenary.
Unable to take the city by force, he and some companions entered through an unused water conduit under the walls of the city, roused their supporters, and seized control of the city in a midnight coup d ' état.
He tried to justify the coup by explaining that Izamo and communist Chinese agents were trying to take over the government and that he had to intervene to save the CAR from the influence of communism.
The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup.
His refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the government of Louis Napoleon after the coup d ' état was followed by his dismissal from his professorship, and he devoted himself to philosophical and political writings of a popular order.
One take on the Kornilov Affair was put forward by Aleksandr Kerensky himself, the main target of the coup.
This was the first coup d ' état to take place in the Arab world.
When it seemed likely that the Liberal Party candidate, Modesto Rodas Alvarado ; would win the 1963 election with an even stronger mandate to enact social reforms, the military responded with a coup, just ten days before the election was scheduled to take place.

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