Holy Alliance

A league formed after the fall of Napoleon by the sovereigns of Ru ia, Austria, and Pru ia, nominally to regulate the relations of the states of Christen dom by the principles of Christian charity, but really to preserve the power and influence of the existing dynasties. Most of the other European rulers acceded to it, and the treaty was made public February 2, 1816. A special article of the treaty excluded forever the members of the Bonaparte family from any European throne. But after the sece ion of England and France the alliance became practically obsolete.