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Holy Alliance

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Holy Alliance
n
1. (Historical Terms) a document advocating government according to Christian principles that was signed in 1815 by the rulers of Russia, Prussia, and Austria
2. (Historical Terms) the informal alliance that resulted from this agreement


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All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
de Saint-Meran's oldest friends, and chamberlain to the Comte d'Artois, "that the Holy Alliance purpose removing him from thence?
 
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