Grand Alliance

Grand Alliance may refer to:

  • Grand Alliance (HDTV), the consortium of companies developing the American HDTV standard.
  • Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg), a coalition of European nations in the 17th and 18th century.
  • Grand Alliance (World War II), the alliance between the United Kingdom, United States, and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany during World War II
  • The Grand Alliance, the third volume of Winston Churchill's The Second World War (book)
  • Grand Alliance (Bangladesh), a coalition government in Bangladesh.
  • Grand Alliance Party, a political party in Sierra Leone
  • Grand Alliance (Philippines), a historical political coalition in the Philippines led by the Progressive Party
  • Grand Alliance for Democracy, a coalition of political parties in the Philippines, led by the Nacionalista Party
  • Holy Alliance, sometimes identified as the Grand Alliance, founded by Tsar Alexander I of Russia after the Napoleonic Wars.

Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or alliance:

    Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand ... borders upon insanity and absurdity—or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
    Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

    It is a power stronger than will.... Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
    Isidore Ducasse, Comte de LautrĂ©amont (1846–1870)