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  2. Coup d'état - Wikipedia

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    The term comes from French coup d'État, literally meaning a 'stroke of state' or 'blow of state'. [20] [21] [22] In English the phrases 'stroke of state' and 'blow of state', no matter how literal they may be, do not make sense, and so they are not translations at all, and hence not literal translations. Some equivalent might be sought in ...

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a surprise attack. In French, [donner] un coup de main means "[to give] a hand" (to give assistance). Even if the English meaning exists as well (as in faire le coup de main), it is old-fashioned. coup d'état (pl. coups d'état) a sudden change in government by force; literally "hit (blow) of state."

  4. Coup d'état - en.wikipedia.org

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    For the injury type, see Coup contrecoup injury. For other uses, see Coup (disambiguation) and Coup d'état (disambiguation) . A coup d'état ( / ˌ k uː d eɪ ˈ t ɑː / ⓘ ; French: [ ku deta ] ; lit.

  5. 28 May 1926 coup d'état - Wikipedia

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    The 28 May 1926 coup d'état, sometimes called 28 May Revolution or, during the period of the corporatist Estado Novo (English: New State), the National Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução Nacional), was a military coup of a nationalist origin, that put an end to the unstable Portuguese First Republic and initiated 48 years of corporatist and nationalist rule within Portugal.

  6. Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution consists of Curzio Malaparte's reflections on modern coups d'état.It devotes chapters to the Bolshevik Revolution with a focus on Leon Trotsky's and Vladimir Lenin's roles, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw, the Kapp Putsch in Germany, Napoleon Bonaparte as the inventor of the modern coup d'état, Miguel Primo de Rivera's rise to power in Spain, Benito ...

  7. February 26 incident - Wikipedia

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    The February 26 incident (二・二六事件, Ni Ni-Roku Jiken, also known as the 2–26 incident) was an attempted coup d'état in the Empire of Japan on 26 February 1936. It was organized by a group of young Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers with the goal of purging the government and military leadership of their factional rivals and ideological opponents.

  8. List of Greek coups d'état - Wikipedia

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    The failure of the counter-coup forced the King to leave Greece definitively; The Velos mutiny [ el ] on 23 May 1973 against the Regime of the Colonels. The crew of the destroyer HNS Velos (D-16) , under the command of Nikolaos Pappas , demanded political asylum in Italy , while the rest of the mutiny in Greek territory is suppressed;

  9. 1924 Estonian coup attempt - Wikipedia

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