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  2. Coup of 18 Brumaire - Wikipedia

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    Lucien Bonaparte, president of the Council of Five Hundred, who engineered the coup that brought his brother to power. On the morning of 18 Brumaire, Lucien Bonaparte falsely persuaded the Councils that a Jacobin coup was at hand in Paris, and induced them to depart for the safety of the suburban Château de Saint-Cloud. [3]

  3. Constitution of the Year VIII - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon Bonaparte during the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire in Saint-Cloud, painting by François Bouchot. Following the refusal of the Council of Five Hundred to revise the Constitution of the Year III, Napoleon Bonaparte conducted a coup d'État on the 18th Brumaire of year VIII (9 November 1799) and took control of the government alongside the Abbot Sieyès and Roger Ducos, establishing a ...

  4. 1799 in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Vermont answers Indian chiefs, in Canada, that their claims were extinguished by treaties of 1763 and 1783 between France, Great Britain and the United States. Two cases are filed challenging slavery in New Brunswick: R v Jones and R v Agnew .

  5. French Consulate - Wikipedia

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    On 9 November 1799 (18 Brumaire VIII), Bonaparte led the coup of 18 Brumaire, seizing French parliamentary and military power and forcing the sitting directors of the government to resign. On the night of 10 November, a remnant of the Council of Ancients abolished the Constitution of the Year III , ordained the consulate, and legalised the coup ...

  6. Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    In November 1799, Napoleon engineered the Coup of 18 Brumaire against the Directory, and became First Consul of the Republic. He won the Battle of Marengo in 1800, which secured France's victory in the War of the Second Coalition, and in 1803 sold the territory of Louisiana to the United States.

  7. Category:Maps of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Maps of Canada" ... Goad map; Google Street View in Canada; L. Module:Location map/data/CanadaGeo ... Location map/data/CanadaTerrain; M. Samuel ...

  8. Timeline of the Napoleonic era - Wikipedia

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    1799. August 23: Receiving news of turmoil in France, Napoleon relinquishes command in Egypt to Kléber and returns to Paris, a so-called Coup d’état; November 9–10: Coup of 18 Brumaire Napoleon overthrows the Directory; December 12: Napoleon elected First Consul of the Consulate; 1800. June 14: Battle of Marengo

  9. French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.