8 sentences with 'coup'
Example sentences and phrases with the word coup and other words derived from it.
• « In 1852 Louis Napoleon staged a coup d'état and declared himself Emperor of France, as his uncle had done decades earlier. »
• « In 1762, the Prussian-born Empress Catherine (who later acquired the honorific "the Great") seized power from her husband in a coup. »
• « The rulers of the city of Geneva originally asked him to reform the local church, and then in 1555 he worked with a group of fellow French exiles to stage a coup d'état. »
• « Amidst the failure of Spanish military expeditions to stop the revolutions, in 1820 an alliance of liberal politicians and military officers staged a coup against Ferdinand and began to remake Spain as a liberal state. »
• « Disgusted by what they saw as Sultan Abdulhamit's hopelessly archaic approach, they launched a successful coup in 1909 and set out to remake the empire as a modern, secular and distinctly Turkish (rather than diverse) state. »
• « In 1799, Napoleon was chosen to join a new three-man conspiracy that succeeded in seizing power in a coup; the new government was called the Consulate, its members "consuls" after the most powerful politicians of the ancient Roman Republic. »
• « Shortly afterwards, Charles Martel's son, Pippin the Short, seized power from the Merovingians in a coup d'état, later ratified by the Pope in Rome, ensuring the legitimacy of the change and establishing the Carolingians as the rightful rulers of the Frankish kingdom. »
• « The Spanish liberal coup of 1820 was the first major test of the Holy Alliance's commitment to prevent revolution anywhere in Europe. True to form, the continental members of the alliance supported a French army of 200,000 in the invasion of Spain and the restoration of Ferdinand to the throne. »
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