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Modified link of Web site: Napoleon.org - 18 Brumaire: the context and course of a coup d’état. May 05, 2026
Add new Web site: Digital Commons - UM Carey Law - Judicial Intervention in Parliamentary Affairs to Prevent a Coup D’état (PDF). Dec 02, 2025
Add new Web site: Council on Foreign Relations - What to Do About Coups. Aug 01, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Distinguishing Legality and Legitimacy of Coup D�État: Looking. Mar 20, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Kentucky - Coup d�etat or Coup d�Autocracy? How Coups Impact Democratization, 1950�2008 (PDF). Feb 03, 2025
Add new Web site: IMF eLibrary - Political Fragility: Coups d��tat and Their Drivers. Sep 17, 2024
Add new Web site: Ohio State University - Origins - Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971. May 07, 2024
Media added. Aug 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Napoleon.org - 18 Brumaire: the context and course of a coup d’état. Jan 05, 2023
Corrected display issue. Jan 31, 2020
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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