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Coup

Name: Coup – Great Britain factsheet records
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Great Britain · Government / Whig Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records

1851–1852Date range

1Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1851

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd3 December 1851

London · Government / Whig Party Government

Meets French Ambassador, Walewski, & congratulates him on Louis Napoleon's coup

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd5 December 1851

London · Government / Whig Party Government

The Cabinet remains neutral towards Louis Napoleon after his coup

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd1851

Government / Whig Party Government

Dismissed for unauthorized approval of the coup in France by Napoleon III

1852

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd17 December 1852

Government / Whig Party Government

Forced to resign after supporting the coup of Louis Napoleon in France

Names involved

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd

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