Holy Alliance

The phrase Holy Alliance was a beautiful truth for the Czar, though only a blasphemous jest for his rascally allies, Metternich and

The Crimes of England 1905

Prussia and Russia were military allies against Napoleon; along with Austria, they formed the so-called Holy Alliance, which, following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo, sought to put the genie of the French Revolution back in its bottle.

A Look at the Comic Book as Serious Art 2008

The occasion of the utterance was the threat by the so-called Holy Alliance to interfere forcibly in South America with a view to reseating Spain in control of her former colonies there.

History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico William Allison Sweeney

The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed.

The Story of Mankind 1921

The renewed oppression of the Continent by the old reigning families, the countenance apparently given by the English Government to the conspiracy against liberty called the Holy Alliance, and the enormous weight of the national debt and taxation occasioned by so long and costly a war, tendered the government and parliament very unpopular.

Chapter IV. Youthful Propagandism. The Westminster Review 1909

When Europe was reorganized, after the fall of Napoleon, almost all the powers entered into a kind of a treaty, known as the Holy Alliance, framed

Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 Albert Bushnell Hart 1898

The renewed oppression of the Continent by the old reigning families, the countenance apparently given by the English Government to the conspiracy against liberty called the Holy Alliance, and the enormous weight of the national debt and taxation occasioned by so long and costly a war, tendered the government and parliament very unpopular.

The autobiography of John Stuart Mill 1873

Satisfied on these major points and secure everywhere, I too should have had my Congress and my Holy Alliance.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

Geneva is anxious to do nothing to displease the Holy Alliance to which it owes its independence.

Albert Savarus 2007

Geneva is anxious to do nothing to displease the Holy Alliance to which it owes its independence.

Albert Savarus 2007