The powers hand in their formal replies…
October 1822 CE
Russia, Austria and Prussia will act as France should in respect of withdrawing their ministers, and will give to France every assistance she might require, the details to be specified in a treaty.
Wellington, on the other hand, replies on behalf of the United Kingdom that having no knowledge of the cause of dispute, and not being able to form a judgment upon a hypothetical case, he can give no answer to any of the questions.
Thus is proclaimed the open breach of the United Kingdom with the principles and policy of the Quintuple Alliance, as it had become with the admission of France in 1818, which development is what gives to the congress its main historical interest.
The ensuing French intervention will end the following year with the Battle of Trocadero, which will reinstate Ferdinand VII of Spain and open a reactionary period of Spanish and European politics that will lead to the Year of Revolutions, 1848.
Locations
People
Alexander I of Russia
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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Ferdinand VII of Spain
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François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
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George Canning
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Karl August von Hardenberg
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Karl Nesselrode
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Klemens von Metternich
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Pope Pius VIII
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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
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Groups
Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
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Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus
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Prussia, Kingdom of
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Russian Empire
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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
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Austrian Empire
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Spain, Bourbon Kingdom (first restoration) of
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France, constitutional monarchy of
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Holy Alliance
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Quintuple Alliance
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