Coup De Main Definition

Coup De Main Sentence Examples

• Rome is plotected by a circle of forts from a coup de main from the sea, the coast, only 12 m.

• The next few years were filled with negotiations and intrigues with Spain and France which did not lead to any particular result, but on the death in 1612 of Duke Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua, who was lord of Monferrato, Charles Emmanuel made a successful coup de main on that district.

• When twenty years old Aratus delivered Sicyon from its tyrant by a bold coup de main.

• He undertook to seize the impregnable fortress of Sveaborg by a coup de main.

• Its power was further curtailed in 382, when a Spartan force occupied the citadel by a treacherous coup-de-main.