THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 10
November 10 in history
What happened on November 10: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1799 and 1917, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Coup of 18 Brumaire
9–10 Nov 1799 — At Saint-Cloud, Bonaparte overthrew the Directory with soldiers in the chamber. The Revolution had produced this general, and the Republic would die of him.
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— Battle of Passchendaele
31 Jul-10 Nov 1917 — Third Ypres lasts three months and gains eight kilometers, at a cost of a quarter-million casualties on each side. In liquid mud, men and mules drown in shell craters. Passchendaele belongs here as a place of memory as well as strategy. Remember.
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