Triple Alliance

Triple Alliance may refer to:

  • Aztec Triple Alliance – Tenochtitlan, Texcoco (Aztec site) and Tlacopan; better known as the Aztec Empire
  • Triple Alliance (1596) – England, France and the Dutch Republic
  • Triple Alliance (1668) – England, the Dutch Republic and Sweden
  • Triple Alliance (1717) – Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and France
  • Triple Alliance (1788) – Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Prussia
  • Treaty of the Triple Alliance (1865) – Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
  • Triple Alliance (1882) – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
  • Triple Alliance (1914) – British trade unions representing National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain), National Transport Workers' Federation and National Union of Railwaymen
  • Tripartite Pact (1940) – Germany, Italy, Japan (a.k.a. Axis Powers)

Famous quotes containing the words triple and/or alliance:

    The triple pillar of the world transformed
    Into a strumpet’s fool.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    From his childhood onwards this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers.... In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumours of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.
    James Keir Hardie (1856–1915)