WORLD HISTORY

FRENCH REVOLUTION

FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
All of the following were members of the Holy Alliance EXCEPT
A
Italy
B
Russia
C
Austria
D
Prussia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -On 14 (26) September 1815 the Emperor of Russia Alexander I, the Emperor of Austria Franz I and the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III met in Paris to sign the “Act of Holy Alliance”.

Detailed explanation-2: -Holy Alliance, a loose organization of most of the European sovereigns, formed in Paris on Sept. 26, 1815, by Alexander I of Russia, Francis I of Austria, and Frederick William III of Prussia when they were negotiating the Second Peace of Paris after the final defeat of Napoleon.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Holy Alliance (German: Heilige Allianz; Russian: , Svyashchennyy soyuz; also called the Grand Alliance) was a coalition linking the monarchist great powers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

Detailed explanation-4: -The intention of the Holy Alliance was to restrain republicanism and secularism in Europe in the wake of the devastating French Revolutionary Wars and the alliance nominally succeeded in this until Crimean War (1853–1856).

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