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Napoleon's Coup, WWI Armistice & Moby-Dick's Debut | Nov 9–14
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This week in history: Napoleon seizes power, the guns of WWI fall silent, and Moby-Dick hits shelves — plus the birth of the US Marines, professional football, and aircraft carriers. Eight world-changing moments, one remarkable week.
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On November ninth, seventeen ninety-nine, in Paris, France, Napoleon Bonaparte pulled off one of history's most audacious power grabs. The French Directory — the five-man executive government that had stumbled through years of corruption and crisis — was swept aside in a single day.
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