Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"In the course of the night, the Movimento das forcas Armadas (MFA) moved to occupy key points throughout the country.… The flowers came to symbolize the revolution, carried out with an almost total lack of violence. Caetano fled to Brazil and a respected officer, General Antonio Spinola, was installed in power. Transition to a new regime would not be easy. Spinola soon fell out with the left-wing MFA, but after a turbulent period the country emerged in 1976 as a liberal democracy." [1001 Days]