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The Holy Alliance (German: Heilige Allianz; Russian: Священный союз, romanized: Svyashchennyy soyuz), also called the Grand Alliance, was a coalition linking the absolute monarchist great powers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, which was created after the final defeat of Napoleon at the behest of Emperor Alexander I of Russia and signed in Paris on 26 September 1815.[1]
The alliance aimed to restrain liberalism in Europe in the wake of the devastating French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars; it nominally succeeded in this until the Crimean War. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck managed to reunite the Holy Alliance, as League of the Three Emperors, following the unification of Germany in 1871. However the alliance faltered by the 1880s due to Austrian and Russian conflicts of interest over the decline of the Ottoman Empire.[2]
- ^ Holy Alliance, Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ E.J. Knapton, "The Origins of the Treaty of Holy Alliance." History 26.102 (1941): 132-140. online
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