The British fleet, as part of the Quadruple Alliance, traveled with Austrian troops to Sicily while French forces were occupying Spain.
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Earlier in life he was British envoy Extraordinary at Madrid from 1717, until the outbreak of the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
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The 1720s saw rapidly changing alliances between the European powers and almost constant diplomatic confrontation, largely over unsolved issues regarding the Quadruple Alliance.
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United States officials feared that a Quadruple Alliance of Prussia, Austria, Russia, and France would restore Spain to power in the Americas.
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The Quadruple Alliance, by contrast, was a standard treaty and the four Great Powers did not invite any of their allies to sign it.
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To counter this alliance, Britain, France, Spain and Portugal signed the "'Quadruple Alliance "'on 22 April 1834.
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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.
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The following year, the War of the Quadruple Alliance broke out, aligning Spain against France, England, the Dutch Republic, and Austria.
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The following year, the War of the Quadruple Alliance pitted Spain against France, which immediately moved to take over Spanish interests in North America.
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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.
