Grand Alliance

Grand Alliance may refer to:

  • Grand Alliance (HDTV), the consortium of companies developing the American HDTV standard.
  • Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg), a coalition of European nations in the 17th and 18th century.
  • Grand Alliance (World War II), the alliance between the United Kingdom, United States, and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany during World War II
  • The Grand Alliance, the third volume of Winston Churchill's The Second World War (book)
  • Grand Alliance (Bangladesh), a coalition government in Bangladesh.
  • Grand Alliance Party, a political party in Sierra Leone
  • Grand Alliance (Philippines), a historical political coalition in the Philippines led by the Progressive Party
  • Grand Alliance for Democracy, a coalition of political parties in the Philippines, led by the Nacionalista Party
  • Holy Alliance, sometimes identified as the Grand Alliance, founded by Tsar Alexander I of Russia after the Napoleonic Wars.

Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or alliance:

    “What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)