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Many of the 100 or more other soldiers who participated were unaware they were overthrowing the government.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Mr. Stevens, 52, was Washington’s envoy to the rebels in Libya when they were overthrowing Col.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2012

When the rebels overthrew his government this year, they found it difficult to separate the names of their own revolutionary councils from the ones they were overthrowing.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2011

It had never occurred to those three tyrants that, in overthrowing Robespierre, they were overthrowing that system of terror to which they were more attached than he had ever been.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

It had never occurred to those three tyrants that, in overthrowing Robespierre, they were overthrowing that system of Terror to which they were more attached than he had ever been.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron