ALLIANCE

In Politics and International Law, a league between two or more friendly powers; which may be either offensive and defensive, or defensive only. Of the former species is the alliance of 1813 against Napoleon, subsequently called the Holy Alliance. Of the latter, the Quadruple Alliance, concluded in 1833 between England, France, Spain, and Portugal. Alliances are divided by publicists into three cla es. 1. Those in which the allied parties agree to prosecute a war with their whole force. 2. Alliances in which auxiliary states pledge themselves to grant to a principal state a fixed contingent of men, money, . 3. Treaties to furnish troops for stated subsidies, to make advances of money, . [s. 46] A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art — W. T. Brande (1st Ed.) ana Sözlük (A–Z)