quadruple alliance in a sentence

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1. The British fleet, as part of the Quadruple Alliance, traveled with Austrian troops to Sicily while French forces were occupying Spain.
2. Earlier in life he was British envoy Extraordinary at Madrid from 1717, until the outbreak of the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
3. The 1720s saw rapidly changing alliances between the European powers and almost constant diplomatic confrontation, largely over unsolved issues regarding the Quadruple Alliance.
4. United States officials feared that a Quadruple Alliance of Prussia, Austria, Russia, and France would restore Spain to power in the Americas.
5. The Quadruple Alliance, by contrast, was a standard treaty and the four Great Powers did not invite any of their allies to sign it.
6. To counter this alliance, Britain, France, Spain and Portugal signed the "'Quadruple Alliance "'on 22 April 1834.
7. The Family Compact with Louis XV of France was signed in 1733, bringing the two states closer together after the embarrassments of the Quadruple Alliance.
8. The following year, the War of the Quadruple Alliance broke out, aligning Spain against France, England, the Dutch Republic, and Austria.
9. The following year, the War of the Quadruple Alliance pitted Spain against France, which immediately moved to take over Spanish interests in North America.
10. He is best known for his part in the War of the Quadruple Alliance, when he commanded the Spanish troops who tried to conquer Rastatt.