Quadruple Alliance

Quadruple Alliance may refer to:

  • In the Franco-Dutch War, 1673 alliance of the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and Lorraine
  • In the War of the Quadruple Alliance, 1718 alliance of Austria, France, the Dutch Republic, and Great Britain
  • Quadruple Alliance (1815) after the Napoleonic Wars, of the United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and Russia
  • Enforcers of the Concession of Evoramonte in 1834 in Portugal, namely the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal
  • Central Powers in World War I in 1914–18, namely Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria

Famous quotes containing the word alliance:

    “In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can’t long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.”
    —Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)