Coup, in French meaning "blow", typically is used as the short form of the phrase coup d'état, a sudden overthrow of a government. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Coup redirects here. ...
Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook A 1969 book by Edward Luttwak that examines aspects of a coup and how to go about initiating a coup.
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England's last coup d’état was the 1688 Glorious Revolution, in which William of Orange, together with a group of parliamentarians, overthrew James II, the last Roman Catholic English ruler and facilitated the establishing of a modern parliamentary democracy.
One of the early examples of this is the coup by Sulla in 88 BC which displaced the elected leadership of Marius in Rome.
An abortive and botched veto coup occurred in Venezuela in 2002.
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