Triple Alliance

Triple Alliance may refer to:

  • Aztec Triple Alliance – Tenochtitlan, Texcoco (Aztec site) and Tlacopan; better known as the Aztec Empire
  • Triple Alliance (1596) – England, France and the Dutch Republic
  • Triple Alliance (1668) – England, the Dutch Republic and Sweden
  • Triple Alliance (1717) – Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and France
  • Triple Alliance (1788) – Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Prussia
  • Treaty of the Triple Alliance (1865) – Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
  • Triple Alliance (1882) – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
  • Triple Alliance (1914) – British trade unions representing National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain), National Transport Workers' Federation and National Union of Railwaymen
  • Tripartite Pact (1940) – Germany, Italy, Japan (a.k.a. Axis Powers)

Famous quotes containing the words triple and/or alliance:

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    By the triple Hecate’s team
    From the presence of the sun,
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    “Let it be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which beneath these disparities unites them.”
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