Zusammenfassung der Ressource
British Foreign Policy 1815-1851
- Aims of those who met at Vienna- 1815
- make sure French paid for their misdeeds
- further their own interests, make sure victorious powers gained compensation
- prevent further French aggression; might threaten peace with Europe
- strengthen states around France
- 4 leading powers remained on good terms with
each other to maintain balance of power
- Castlereagh worried that if the settlement was too harsh
then it would make them bitter and likely to go to war again
- How successful?
- reduced frontiers
- lost many oversea colonies
- allowed to keep Alsace Lorraine
- victorious powers all gained territories
- france's smaller neighbours were strengthened
- quadruple alliance formed: Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia
- balance of power achieved
- aims and achievement of Lord Castlereagh in foreign affairs
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