Holy Alliance
Americannoun
noun
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a document advocating government according to Christian principles that was signed in 1815 by the rulers of Russia, Prussia, and Austria
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the informal alliance that resulted from this agreement
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In 1815, in the wake of Napoléon’s defeat at Waterloo, Austria, Prussia, and Russia had formed the Holy Alliance.
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The members of the Holy Alliance intended also to Assert Fernando VII’s control over his rebellious American colonies.
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Britain’s foreign minister proposed that the United States join Britain in issuing a joint statement warning France and the Holy Alliance against imposing their will on the former Spanish colonies.
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When both were in monarchic Holy Alliance, they intrigued against each other, sabotaged each other's trade, angled for republican U. S. support.
From Time Magazine Archive
The oppositional pronunciamento of the German bourgeoisie may be dated from 1840, from the death of the late King of Prussia, the last surviving founder of the Holy Alliance of 1815.
From Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 by Karl Marx
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