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:

    “We had heard of a Grand Fall on this stream, and thought that each fall we came to must be it, but after christening several in succession with this name, we gave up the search. There were more Grand or Petty Falls than I can remember.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Let it be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which beneath these disparities unites them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)