Editing Quintuple Alliance (section)

{{Short description|1818 alliance of European nations}}
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|caption             =European countries that were part of the Quintuple Alliance in 1815. 
|date_signed         = Autumn 1818
|location_signed     = Aix-la-Chapelle 
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* {{flagcountry|Austrian Empire}}
* {{flagicon image| Royal flag of France during the Bourbon Restoration.svg}}[[Bourbon Restoration in France| France]]
* {{flagcountry|Prussia|1803}}
* {{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
* {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}
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The '''Quintuple Alliance''' came into being at the [[Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818)|Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle]] in 1818, when [[Bourbon Restoration in France|France]] joined the [[Quadruple Alliance (1815)|Quadruple Alliance]] created by [[Austrian Empire|Austria]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], the [[Russian Empire]], and the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]. The European peace settlement concluded at the [[Congress of Vienna]] in 1815.<ref>Irby C. Nichols Jr,  "The Congress of Verona, 1822: A Reappraisal." ''Southwestern Social Science Quarterly'' (1966): 385-399 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42867308 online]</ref> 

After following the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (in [[Aachen]]), the Alliance powers met thrice: in 1820 at the [[Congress of Troppau]] ([[Opava]]), in 1821 at the [[Congress of Laibach]] ([[Ljubljana]]), and in 1822 at the [[Congress of Verona]]. 

While Britain stood largely aloof from the Alliance's illiberal actions, the four continental monarchies were successful in authorising Austrian military action in Italy in 1821 and [[Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis|French intervention in Spain]] in 1823.

The Alliance is conventionally taken to have become defunct along with the [[Holy Alliance]] of the three original continental members following the death of Emperor [[Alexander I of Russia]] in 1825. Despite the Alliance's dissolution, the Great Powers of France, Britain, and Russia would go on to intervene in the [[Battle of Navarino]].
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