Triple Alliance (India).
An alliance between the English, the Peshwa and the Nizam, concluded in 1790, by which it was agreed that the contracting parties should combine to invade the dominions of Tippoo Sahib, and that all conquests should be equally divided between them.
Triple Alliance, War of the.
The war waged by Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay against Paraguay from 1865 to 1869.
Tri-regal Alliance.
An alliance between the kings of Prussia, Saxony and Hanover in 1849, with the object of bringing about a union of the German States, to the exclusion of Austria. It was broken up by the Humiliation of Olmütz in 1850.
Trismegistus, The German.
Rudolph II of Germany was so called.
Triumvirate, The.
Grenville’s Ministry in 1763 was so called, because the Secretaries of State, Lords Egremont and Halifax, were regarded as holding the direction of affairs jointly with Grenville.