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| | Poland, 1815: Preventing Violent Conflict: Teaching Guides: For The Classroom: Education: U.S. Institute of Peace |
 | | Later that year, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Britain signed the Quadruple Alliance (the Quintuple Alliance when France joined in 1818), which gave birth to the Concert of Europe or Congress System, a European network designed to maintain order, peace, and stability. |
 | | The object of all his efforts has been to see the members of the Alliance acquire dimensions capable of maintaining the general equilibrium and he fails to see how, with such principles, the congress can become a center of intrigue and hate. |
 | | It is for the world to judge whether the desires of gaining a million more or less of population or that of assuring himself of a preponderance, were capable of animating him of guiding any of his proceedings. |
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