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Encyclopedia - 18 Brumaire: Encyclopedia - 18 Brumaire
18 Brumaire, the coup of 18 Brumaire or sometimes simply Brumaire refers to the coup d'état by which General Napoleon Bonaparte overthre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 18 Brumaire: Encyclopedia Ii - 18 Brumaire - Aftermath
The Directory was crushed, but the coup within the coup was not yet complete. The necessity to use military force had certainly strengthe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 18 Brumaire: Encyclopedia Ii - 18 Brumaire - The Events Of 19 Brumaire
By the following day, the deputies had, for the most part, worked out that they were facing an attempted coup rather than being protected...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 18 Brumaire: Encyclopedia Ii - 18 Brumaire - The Events Of 18 Brumaire In The Year Viii
On the morning of 18 Brumaire, members of the Council of Elders sympathetic to the coup warned their colleagues of a Jacobin conspiracy a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 18 Brumaire: Encyclopedia Ii - 18 Brumaire - Context
Ironically, the ground for Bonaparte's coup may have been laid more by his few defeats than by his many victories. In November 1799, Fran...   » Read the article