Grand Alliance

Examples of Grand Alliance in the following topics:

• William of Orange and the Grand Alliance

  • With the Holy Roman Emperor and the petty German states, they formed another Grand Alliance.
  • Even after the formation of the Grand Alliance the French King continued to antagonize his European rivals.
  • Securing the Protestant succession was soon recognized by the Grand Alliance as one of England's main war aims.
  • With the Grand Alliance defeated in Spain, its casualties and costs mounting and aims diverging, the Tories came to power in Great Britain in 1710 and resolved to end the war.
  • Explain William's stake in the War of the Spanish Succession and the goals of the Grand Alliance.

• Louis XIV's Wars

  • His ambitions pushed other leading European states to form alliances against increasingly aggressive France.
  • The King blamed it, his former close ally, for the creation of the Triple Alliance, whose pressure had put a halt to his conquests.
  • England felt threatened by the Dutch naval power and did not need much encouragement to leave the Triple Alliance.
  • The Nine Years' War (1688–97), often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, once again pitted Louis XIV against a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and several princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • However, with the ailing and childless Charles II of Spain approaching his end, a new conflict over the inheritance of the Spanish Empire would soon embroil Louis XIV and the Grand Alliance in a final war – the War of the Spanish Succession.

• The Question of Spanish Succession

  • This agreement divided Spain's Italian territories between Louis's son le Grand Dauphin and the Archduke Charles, with the rest of the empire awarded to Joseph Ferdinand.
  • With the Holy Roman Emperor and the petty German states, they formed another Grand Alliance.
  • With the Grand Alliance defeated in Spain, its casualties and costs mounting and aims diverging, the Tories came to power in Great Britain in 1710 and resolved to end the war.

• Yaroslav the Wise

  • Yaroslav I, also known as Yaroslav the Wise, developed the first legal codes, beautified Kievan Rus', and formed major political alliances with the West during his nearly 40-year reign.
  • Yaroslav the Wise was the Grand Prince of Kiev from 1016 until his death in 1954.
  • Yaroslav was the son of the Varangian Grand Prince Vladimir the Great and most likely his second son with Rogneda of Polotsk.
  • These marriages forged powerful alliances with European states.
  • The Grand Prince Yaroslav I died in 1054 and was buried in Saint Sophia's Cathedral.

• The Formation of Russia

  • The two grand cities had been locked in dispute for over a century, but Ivan III waged a harsh war that forced Novgorod to cede its land to Moscow after many uprisings and attempted alliances between Novgorod and Lithuania.
  • Ivan III’s power was partly due to his alliance with Russian Orthodoxy, which created an atmosphere of anti-Catholicism and stifled the chance to build more powerful western alliances.
  • Vasili III was the son of Sophia Paleologue and Ivan the Great and the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1505 to 1533.
  • He utilized alliances with the Orthodox Church to put down any rebellions or feudal disputes.
  • He held the title of Grand Prince of Moscow between 1462 and 1505.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949.
  • Other major exercises that followed included Exercise Grand Slam and Exercise Longstep, naval and amphibious exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, Italic Weld, a combined air-naval-ground exercise in northern Italy, Grand Repulse, involving the British Army on the Rhine (BAOR), the Netherlands Corps and Allied Air Forces Central Europe (AAFCE), Monte Carlo, a simulated atomic air-ground exercise involving the Central Army Group, and Weldfast, a combined amphibious landing exercise in the Mediterranean Sea involving American, British, Greek, Italian and Turkish naval forces.
  • Greece and Turkey joined the alliance in 1952, forcing a series of controversial negotiations over how to bring the two countries into the military command structure.
  • NATO countries, fearing that the Soviet Union's motive was to weaken the alliance, ultimately rejected this proposal.
  • During the Cold War, most of Europe was divided between two alliances.

• The Holy Alliance

• The Alliances

• Events of the War

  • In 1756, the major powers shifted their alliances and Prussia allied with Britain while France allied with Austria - a change known as the diplomatic revolution.
  • Because of Prussia's alliance with Britain, Austria formed an alliance with France, seeing an opportunity to recapture Silesia (lost in the War of the Austrian Succession).
  • The Anglo-Prussian alliance was joined by smaller German states (especially Hanover, which remained in a personal union with Britain).
  • The Russian emperor had been overthrown by his wife, Catherine, who ended Russia's alliance with Prussia and withdrew from the war.
  • Peter” (the present day Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul) would be retaken from the Spanish army during the undeclared Hispano-Portuguese war of 1763–1777.

• The Farmer's Alliance

  • Political activists in the movement also made attempts to unite the two alliance organizations, along with the Knights of Labor and the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, into a common movement.
  • The alliance movement as a whole reached more than 750,000 members by 1890.
  • In 1889–1890, the alliance was reborn as the Populist Party.
  • As the focus of the farmers' movement shifted into politics, the Farmers' Alliance faded away.
  • The Populist Party grew directly out of the Farmers' Alliance.