Pronunciamento

I think of [Oswald] Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.

After assembling an army in Catalonia, he marched on Madrid, issuing en route a pronunciamento calling on the Queen Regent to banish Valenzuela and to accept him as her first minister.

[H]e did not want to see Brazil suffer the same fate as those South American countries whose history has been nothing but a succession of barrack-room pronunciamentos.