World History Ch.17

Nations of the Grand Alliance: Congress of Vienna

• Britain: Lord Castlereagh

• Austria: Prince Klemens von Metternich

• Prussia

• Russia: Alexander I

Prince Metternich was the leading figure at the congress

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand:

• Representative of France

• shrewd and opportunistic politician

Safeguards Against France:

• reduced its territory to the 1792 borders

• Pay indemnities

Restoration of Legitimate Rulers:

• Invited Louis XVIII to assume the throne of France

Grants of Compensation:

• although Great Britain did not receive any territory on the Continent, it retained control of some French and Dutch colonies seized during recent wars

Quadruple Alliance: AKA Concert of Europe

• Austria

• Prussia

• Russia

• Great Britain

  Quintuple: +1 (France)

American President at the time of Alliance: James Monroe

• Published the Monroe Doctrine although we didn’t have the power to enforce it

• British navy was able to block any attempt on the part of the European Alliance

Greeks V Ottoman Empire:

• Britain Russia and France came to the Greeks’ aid

• Defeated Turkish forces

• Secured the Treaty of Ad