Committee of Safety - Definition and Overview

Committee of Safety may refer to:

• The Committee of Safety, the parliamentary body in England that oversaw the English Civil War
• The Committee of Public Safety which controlled created the French Republic and initiated the Reign of Terror
• One of the many Colonial American Committees of Safety established at the start of the American Revolution
• Committee of Safety , sometimes the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, the forerunner of the provisional government of Hawaii during the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy