Triple Alliance

In 1717 Stanhope negotiated a Triple Alliance with the French and the Dutch. This treaty was maintained by Walpole and Townshend throughout the 1720s. By 1730, however, it was attracting considerable criticism from the Opposition, and in the Second Treaty of Vienna, signed in March 1731, Walpole jettisoned the Anglo-French…

…1718, when Austria joined the Triple Alliance of Britain, the Dutch Republic (United Provinces), and France to prevent Spain from altering the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). Philip V of Spain, influenced by his wife, Elizabeth Farnese of Parma, and her adviser

He negotiated the Triple Alliance between England, France, and Holland in 1717, and in the following year he brought Austria into the pact. He then used this quadruple alliance to enforce upon Spain a settlement of its differences with Austria. Stanhope’s alliance with France thus made Britain for…