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Concept of the Holy Alliance

It is an agreement signed on September 26, 1815 , three months after the conclusion of the Congress of Vienna, was the idea of ​​Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Francisco I of Austria and Frederick William III of Prussia. Despite their political origin, their subscribers were based on purely Christian religious guidelines. Its purpose was to preserve the status of totalitarianism in Europe after the decline of Napoleon and to prevent the birth and spread of revolutionary or liberal currents.


The holy alliance



The Holy Alliance was a personal agreement, approved and signed by the monarchs of Russia, Austria and Prussiain Paris following the Napoleonic struggles. The three monarchs, resorting to Christian principles, promised to protect in their political relations the principles of justice, piety and peace. It consisted in developing international relations, based on Christianity and could be openly manifested by anyone who accepted those principles, intentionally leaving out non-Christian regimes such as the Ottoman Empire. Although in practice he played no effective role, except to have become the statement of a political motto.



Traditionally, Spanish chroniclers think that the Holy Alliance, at the Convention of Verona, gave power to France to assault Spain and end the constitutional trienniumThis precept would be carried out in a supposed secret agreement that would sanction any liberal system and also freedom of the press, but that treaty has only been described by Spanish historiography, without finding any background in any other file. Some Spanish writers think that perhaps it is an artifice, while non-Spanish historiography discards falsification. Even so, it is said that the mandates of the Holy Alliance, only sought to condemn an ​​intervention that would likewise occur, due to the exclusive interests of France and Austria in Spain and the Italian regions respectively. 

Some time later, the Holy Alliance concentrated in Aix- la- Chapelle in 1818and during an assembly, they agreed on several provisions against the "populists and anarchists" in the states of Germany, as well as the withdrawal of their troops from French territory and incorporating Great Britain to their policies, despite the fact that the British government ruled by George Canning avoided all agreements to not collaborate with the alliance in any military action, whether with money, ships or troops. 



Likewise, in the Parliament of Troppau, in the one of Laibach (the two in 1820) and in the Assembly of Verona celebrated in the year 1822, the " right of participation " was consolidated", promoted by Prince Metternich, through which the great European powers would fight against the birth of liberalism in any nation of the continent, meaning" intimidation of European peace. "With that, he accepted the alliance in an unspoken way that Austria would send troops to extinguish liberal revolts in the reign of the Two Sicilies and in the Empire of Piedmont in 1820 and after France eliminated that trace of his "anarchist" past, sending troops to bring down the liberals of Spain, Ferdinand VII was restored as interim king in 1823. 



During the various crises, Britain did not want to participate in favor of the alliance, by objecting that its interests inclined towards international trade, they were not being affected and that the displacement of their troops was determined by Congress not only by the king, while Britain was not a totalitarian empire like that of Austria, Russia or Prussia.
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