2) Quadruple Alliance. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Quadruple Alliance, any of several European alliances. The Quadruple Alliance of 1718 was formed by Great Britain, France, the Holy Roman emperor, and the Netherlands...

3) Canadian Alliance. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Canadian Alliance, political party that has its origins in the Reform party of Canada, which was founded in 1987 in Winnipeg, Man., as a W Canada-based conservative...

4) Triple Alliance. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Triple Alliance, in European history, any of several coalitions. 1 The Triple Alliance of 1668 was formed by the Netherlands, England, and Sweden against France after...

5) Evangelical Alliance. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Evangelical Alliance, (evanjel´ikl) (KEY) , an association of Evangelical Christians in a union, not of churches, but of individuals belonging to different denominations...

6) Holy Alliance. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Holy Alliance, 1815, agreement among the emperors of Russia and Austria and the king of Prussia, signed on Sept. 26. It was quite distinct from the Quadruple Alliance...

7) Dual Alliance. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Dual Alliance, 1879-82: see Triple Alliance and Triple Entente....

8) Belle-Alliance. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Belle-Alliance, (bel´-alyaNs´) (KEY) , village, central Belgium, near Waterloo. The battle of Waterloo (see Waterloo campaign), where Napoleon I was defeated in June,...

9) Grand Alliance, War of the. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Grand Alliance, War of the, 1688-97, war between France and a coalition of European powers, known as the League of Augsburg (and, after 1689, as the Grand Alliance)....

10) Triple Alliance, War of the. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Triple Alliance, War of the, 1865-70, fought between Paraguay on one side and an alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay on the other. Brazil's military reprisals...