Coup d'état
Tyranny
To have control of the boats and trade.
No, "grabbed" is not a preposition. It is a past tense verb that describes the action of seizing or taking hold of something.
After seizing control of the Assembly, the radicals wrote a new declaration of rights and constitution modeled after the USA.
John Brown
Seizing
Seizing, you spelt it correctly.
opportunity seizing
Because the French felt that they should punish them.
Conspiratorial
Conspiratorial
Conspiratorial