Holy Alliance
Holy Alliance
Holy Alliance, an agreement among the monarchs of Russia, Austria, and Prussia made in Paris on 26 September 1815 after the Congress of Vienna tried to rearrange Europe in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The alliance consisted of a philosophical pledge to carry out foreign relations on the basis of Christian morals. Eventually it was signed by all European rulers except the king of Britain and the pope. The United States feared that the European powers would use the alliance as a pretext to attempt to restore Spanish dominion over South America by force. Seeing the agreement as a threat to liberal regimes, the United States announced the Monroe Doctrine on 2 December 1823, arguing that any attempt by the European monarchies to impose absolutism in the Western Hemisphere would be interpreted as a threat to the security of the United States.
See alsoMonroe Doctrinexml .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Arthur Preston Whitaker, The United States and the Independence of Latin America, 1800–1830 (1941).
Dana Gardner Munro, The Latin American Republics: A History, 3d ed. (1960).
Donald Marquand Dozer, Latin America: An Interpretive History (1962).
Additional Bibliography
Lewis, James E. The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood: The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783–1829. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Hilary Burger