Viscount Castlereagh Was Able to Construct the Quadruple Alliance of 1814

question 20

Multiple Choice

Viscount Castlereagh was able to construct the Quadruple Alliance of 1814, thus ensuring the defeat of Napoleon by:

• A) promising large British subsidies to the allies.
• B) renegotiating the Frankfurt proposals with Metternich.
• C) offering Prussia and Russia territorial concessions in the west.
• D) threatening to sign a bilateral pact with Metternich.

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