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Holy Alliance
Holy Alliance 1815, agreement among the emperors of Russia and Austria and the king of Prussia, signed on Sept. 26. It was quite distinct from the Quadruple Alliance (Quintuple, after the admission of France) of Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, arrived at first in 1814 and revived in... Read more |
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Triple Alliance
Triple Alliance in European history, any of several coalitions. 1 The Triple Alliance of 1668 was formed by the Netherlands, England, and Sweden against France after Louis XIV had invaded the Spanish Netherlands in the War of Devolution . Largely because of the initiative of the Dutch statesman... Read more |
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Quadruple Alliance
Quadruple Alliance any of several European alliances. The Quadruple Alliance of 1718 was formed by Great Britain, France, the Holy Roman emperor, and the Netherlands when Philip V of Spain, guided by Cardinal Alberoni , sought by force to nullify the peace settlements reached after the War of the... Read more |
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Holy League
Holy League in Italian history, alliance formed (1510-11) by Pope Julius II during the Italian Wars for the purpose of expelling Louis XII of France from Italy, thereby consolidating papal power. Venice, the Swiss cantons, Ferdinand II of Aragón, Henry VIII of England, and Holy Roman... Read more |
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Francis I (Holy Roman Empire)
Francis I 1708-65, Holy Roman emperor (1745-65), duke of Lorraine (1729-37) as Francis Stephen, grand duke of Tuscany (1737-65), husband of Archduchess Maria Theresa . He succeeded his father in Lorraine, but agreed (1735) to cede his duchy to Stanislaus I of Poland to end the War of the Polish... Read more |
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Leopold I (Holy Roman Empire)
Leopold I 1640-1705, Holy Roman emperor (1658-1705), king of Bohemia (1656-1705) and of Hungary (1655-1705), second son and successor of Ferdinand III. Upon his elder brother's death (1654), Leopold, who had been educated for the church, became Ferdinand's heir. During his reign the Holy Roman... Read more |
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Charles VI (Holy Roman Empire)
Charles VI 1685-1740, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40), king of Bohemia (1711-40) and, as Charles III, king of Hungary (1712-40); brother and successor of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I . Charles was the last Holy Roman emperor of the direct Hapsburg line. In 1700 he was designated successor in Spain to... Read more |
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Leopold II (Holy Roman Empire)
Leopold II 1747-92, Holy Roman emperor (1790-92), king of Bohemia and Hungary (1790-92), as Leopold I grand duke of Tuscany (1765-90), third son of Maria Theresa. Succeeding his father, Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, in Tuscany, Leopold reorganized the Tuscan government, abolished torture and the... Read more |
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League of Augsburg
League of Augsburg defensive alliance formed (1686) by Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I with various German states, including Bavaria and the Palatinate, and with Sweden and Spain so far as their German interests were concerned. It was an acknowledgment of a community of German feeling against French... Read more |
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Chaumont
Chaumont , town (1990 pop. 28,900), capital of Haute-Marne dept., NE France, in Champagne, at the confluence of the Marne and Saize rivers. It is a railroad and light industrial center. Iron is mined nearby. The Treaty of Chaumont, signed on Mar. 1, 1814, by England, Russia, Prussia, and Austria,... Read more |
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‘Holy Alliance’
‘Holy Alliance’ was the derisive name given to the declaration at Paris in September 1815 by Alexander I of Russia, Frederick William III of Prussia, and Francis I of Austria... |
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Holy Alliance
Holy Alliance (1815) Agreement signed at the Congress of Vienna by the crowned heads of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Its purpose was to... |
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Quadruple Alliance
Quadruple Alliance. 1. 1718. After the War...formed a defensive Triple Alliance in 1717, which the Emperor...Austria—formed a Quadruple Alliance to maintain the peace and to...were soon apparent. See Holy Alliance.3. 1834. In... |
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Francis II
...Francis II (1768–1835) Last Holy Roman Emperor (1792–1806...culminating in the abolition of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1810 Prince...Austria was preserved by this alliance, and in 1813 Francis joined...Napoleon. He then formed the Holy ... |
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Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 2nd marquess of Londonderry
...affairs of sovereign states. Castlereagh became alienated from Metternich and by 1820 had dissociated Britain from the Holy Alliance, which he had condemned on its inception as ‘a piece of sublime mysticism and nonsense’. Although his distrust... |
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Alexander I
...his troops across Europe and into Paris (1814). Under the influence of various mystical groups, he helped form the Holy Alliance with other European powers. He was named constitutional monarch of Poland in 1815, and also annexed Finland, Georgia... |
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Spain, relations with
...1830s, Britain and France successfully backed professedly liberal monarchists against the absolutist Carlists and the Holy Alliance. Yet Britain and France were as much rivals as allies, with the former suffering defeat over the Spanish marriages... |
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Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of
...chairman but much more than a good listener. It was Liverpool who insisted that the prince regent could not accede to the Holy Alliance in a personal capacity. Within the Commons Liverpool cultivated the support of the country gentlemen. When their... |
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Augsburg, League of
...Augsburg, League of (1686) Alliance of the enemies of the French...Composed of Spain, Sweden, the Holy Roman Empire, and lesser states...encroachment on the land bordering the Holy Roman Empire. Following the...against the French, the Grand Alliance, was ... |
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Henry VIII
...to play the European game of military alliances almost at once: a disastrous campaign...Austria, Burgundy, and Spain, became Holy Roman emperor, and Henry began meddling...in 1522–3, but withdrew from the alliance just too soon to profit from Francis...1525, the ... |
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Holy Alliance
Holy Alliance. The declaration signed in 1815 by the sovereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and later by others, declaring that henceforth the relations of the Powers would be based on ‘the sublime truths which the Holy Religion of our Saviour teaches’. |
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‘Holy Alliance’
‘Holy Alliance’ was the derisive name given to the declaration at Paris in September 1815 by Alexander I of Russia, Frederick William III of Prussia, and Francis I of Austria... |
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Quadruple Alliance
Quadruple Alliance 1. 1718. After the War...formed a defensive Triple Alliance in 1717, which the Emperor...Austria—formed a Quadruple Alliance to hold periodic conferences to...were soon apparent. See holy alliance. 3. 1834. In... |
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holy
holy sacred (often in Christian...League any of various European alliances sponsored by the papacy during...League of 1609, a military alliance of the German Catholic princes.Holy Name the name of Jesus as...Sunday.See also Fourteen Holy ... |
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Holy League
Holy League A name given to several European alliances formed during the 15th, 16th...Cambrai in 1529.The French Holy League of 1576, also known...accepted Catholicism in 1593.The Holy (or Catholic) League of 1609 was a military alliance of the ... |
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Grand Alliance
Grand Alliance 1. an alliance between the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, William III of England, the Netherlands...France in 1689. This coalition began the War of the Grand Alliance in 1689 to prevent the Bourbon family of France from gaining... |
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Frederick William III
...retreat of Napoleon from Moscow, he signed a military alliance with Russia and Austria. From 1807 onwards he supported...much of the Rhineland and of Saxony. He signed the HOLY ALLIANCE, and became progressively more reactionary during the... |
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Alexander I
...at LEIPZIG, after its retreat from Moscow (1812). In an effort to uphold Christian morality in Europe he formed a HOLY ALLIANCE of European monarchs. He supported METTERNICH in suppressing liberal and national movements, and gave no help to the... |
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Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of
...him out of office if he had to resign. It was Liverpool who insisted that the prince regent could not accede to the Holy Alliance in a personal capacity. Liverpool was protective towards the landed interest, but though he favoured a corn law he... |
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Monroe Doctrine
...spelt out in President James MONROE's annual message to Congress in 1823, was the threat of intervention by the HOLY ALLIANCE to restore Spain's South American colonies, and the aggressive attitude of Russia on the north-west coast of America... |
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marriage
...years | join in marriagesynonyms: married state, matrimony, holy matrimony, wedlock, conjugal bond, union, match. 2. invited...ceremony, nuptials. 3. the marriage of their skillssynonyms: alliance, union, merger, unification, amalgamation, combination... |
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A holy but frail alliance
...together in what some are labelling a "holy alliance". Their supposed common enemy encompasses...spokesman acknowledged only "a presumed alliance between the Vatican and Islam...diplomatic weakness. In 1984, the Holy See played an influential role at... |
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A 'holy alliance'.(Book Review)
A review of Faith and Feminism: a Holy Alliance, by Helen Lakelly Hunt. reviewed by Michaela Bruzzese...in Chile and a Sojourners contributing writer. A 'Holy Alliance'. reviewed by Michaela Bruzzese. Sojourners Magazine... |
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A holy and explosive alliance
...will be posed by the emerging alliance between official Catholicism and...has been busy contructing a new holy alliance, in which the Vatican's principal...fundamentalist Islam. As far as that alliance is concerned the Vatican's missions... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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WALESA DENIES REPORT OF 'HOLY ALLIANCE'
...pope, at a Vatican meeting June 7, 1982, set up a "Holy Alliance" to support the union outlawed in the pontiff's homeland...destabilize Soviet control of eastern Europe. Time said the alliance was part of a larger strategy to destroy the Soviet... |
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`Holy alliance' tries to wreck birth-control conference
...population conference has succeeded in forging even stranger alliances than the 1991 Gulf war. Saudi Arabia's decision to pull out of the Cairo discussions places it in a new and holy trinity of condemnation alongside Iran and the Vatican. It... |
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A holy alliance: Rabbi and sheik work for Mideast peace.(Originated from...
TEKOA, West Bank _ Sometimes, if ever so rarely here, religions cease to divide people _ and unite them. Alliances turn holy. As utopian as that sounds in these days of rage, a Jewish rabbi and a Muslim sheik are working on religious solutions... |
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Alexander I, the Holy Alliance and Clemens Metternich: a reappraisal.
...the time. It is perhaps typical that one of the epithets hurled by Metternich against Alexander's brainchild, the Holy Alliance, was that it represented a philanthropic document under the guise of religion. Metternich's use of the word philanthropy... |
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CUBA-VATICAN: THE HOLY ALLIANCE AGAINST GLOBALIZATION
...over, and theworld has been provided with a new and peculiar alliance againstglobalization founded by warriors from opposite philosophicalcamps...the CatholicChurch, is planned in detail by advisers. The Holy See has thousands of years' experience in conspiracies,wars... |
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Brown's holy alliance; BLACK DOG.(Column)
BLACK DOG Brown's holy alliance GORDON BROWN'S dreary Cabinet crony Alistair Darling is off to America to build links with the Republicans ready for Brown... |
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COLUMN: Feminist Christians: A holy alliance?
...the past several weeks, I have been reading a book written by Helen LaKelly Hunt, titled, "Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance." In this book, Hunt writes that there are three kinds of feminists: 1) those who feel uncomfortable with organized... |
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