Moreover, an alliance with England, offensive and defensive, to check Russian encroachments, would strengthen his own position, social as well as political.
The former prisoner of Ham, whom everybody laughed at as a visionary or despised as an adventurer, would, by an alliance with England, become the equal of Queen Victoria, and with infinitely greater power.
Now, my lords, the emperour learned to set the true value upon his alliance with Britain, and all Europe had an opportunity of remarking our spirit, our power, and our vigilance.
If an alliance with a Catholic Princess were necessary, none could apparently involve less danger than one which brought about a Portuguese rather than a Spanish connection.
But if this were to be accomplished, there must be no stain on the royal prestige by an alliance with a family which was little above bourgeois rank.
She had cultivated an alliance with Cromwell, and in order to consolidate that alliance, she had treated the Royalist cause with contemptuous neglect.
Clarendon had no mind to cultivate an alliance with Spain, which must be purchased by such concessions as would have inflicted grave injury on England.
The irregularity of England's action in Egypt hampered her international relations at many points; and it may be assigned as one of the causes that brought France into alliance with Russia.
The explanation would seem to be that, like the King of Italy, he felt an alliance with the "conservative" Powers of Central Europe to be some safeguard against the revolutionary elements then so strong in Russia.
After ten years of exile, the banished de Lacys returned, and by alliance with O'Neil, no less than their own prowess, recovered all their former influence.
In 1288, inalliance with Manus O'Conor, they compelled him to retreat from Roscommon into Clanrickarde, in Mayo.
Nay, the provinces, too, and free cities, and some kingdoms in alliance with Rome, were all in a disturbed state.
To mention the most remarkable only, Appius Caecus dissuaded the senate from agreeing to an alliance with Pyrrhus, as prejudicial to the republic [286].
Some cities in alliance with Rome, but which by their great licentiousness were hastening to ruin, he deprived of their independence.
Discontented with the Emperor, and distrustful of his intentions, he had entered into an alliance with France, which the other members of the League were suspected of favouring.
The Roman Catholic princes too, who, though they were anxious to humble Austria, had witnessed his progress with distrust, were less alarmed now that an alliance with a Roman Catholic power ensured his respect for their religion.
Ferdinand, meanwhile, was treated with guarded courtesy that kept alive his hope of an alliance with a French princess.
Gentle as the Pontiff was by nature, he had declined to exclude all British merchandise from his States, or to accept an alliance with Eugène and Joseph.
Alexander and Czartoryski were already debating the advantages of an alliance with England.
Washington, as we have seen, regarded this policy as a temporary expedient, while Jefferson upon two separate occasions was ready to form an alliance with England.
In fact, the first treaty ever signed by the United States was the treaty of alliance with France, negotiated and ratified in 1778.
Thus notwithstanding his French proclivities and his warning against "entangling alliances," the author of the immortal Declaration of Independence was ready and willing in this emergency to form an alliance with England.
Demosthenes roused the Athenian assembly, where all were silent through fear, to confront Philip boldly, and himself went to Thebes, which he induced to form an alliance with Athens.
Liberated from the troubles of the Scythian irruption, Cyaxares formed an alliance with Nabopolassar, the viceroy in Babylon, who had revolted, and gained his independence.
Germanicus died in the 34th year of his age, and was universally mourned for, not only by the Roman people, but by the princes in alliance with Rome, and even by the proud monarch of Parthia.
He attacked the Samnites, and the Romans were not sorry to see them weakened, and made an alliance with him.
Peace was made for the time; but the Latins, now inalliance with Rome, began to make war on the Samnites.
Sweden was for the most part inalliance with France; her bias was that way.
In short, the generals had the satisfaction to see that the Parliament would not be sorry for any advances they should make towards an alliance with Spain.
La Rochefoucault, were for an alliance with Spain, in a manner without restriction.
He had a mind to form an alliance with me, and knowing how to employ him advantageously, I prepossessed the people in his favour, and exaggerated the conspiracy which the Cardinal had formed against him by means of Du Hamel.
In 1219 the great William Marshall died; and changes in English politics forced his sons into an alliance with Llywelyn.
The Barons' War paralysed the power of the King, and Llywelyn made an alliance with Simon de Montfort and the barons.
The Papacy had always proved to be a broken reed for Welsh princes; but Owen's alliance with Peter de Luna, the anti-Pope Benedict XIII.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alliance with" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
