# Discussion## Effectiveness of the Congress of Vienna> Discuss the Congress of Vienna. What did he try to achieve in Europe? How successful was he in achieving his goals? After Napoleon's exile, Robert Stewart, British Foreign Secretary, had the Treaty of Chaumont signed on March 9, 1814. The treaty brought the Bourbon family back to power, reduced France to its size of 1792, and aligned Great Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia in what was called the Quadruple Alliance. In September of the same year, the Congress of Vienna met to devise new policies to prevent France from dominating Europe again: Prussia and Austria were awarded new territories and the Bourbon monarchy was confirmed. The various powers present at the Congress feared that Russia would advance further into Central Europe. To avoid this, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, the French prime minister, suggested that France, Britain and Austria join forces to dissuade Tsar Alexander I from penetrating deeper into Central Europe: it worked. France's brilliant move gave them a place as the fifth great power of Europe. On 1 March 1815 Napoleon returned from Elba and was immediately declared an outlaw. At the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, General Wellington and Prussian Field Marshal von Blucher defeated Napoleon; he was again forced into exile, this time to St. Helena (off the coast of Africa). The Quadruple Alliance remained an unprecedented peacemaking coalition, and the Vienna Accords resolved all the objectives of the Congress. The treaties were made between states, not between monarchs, and the agreements remained intact for nearly half a century and prevented war for nearly 100 years.## Ideology of Conservatism> Explain the ideology of the nineteenth century...... mid- document ......we are experiencing a revolution. After the Congress of Laibach in January 1821, Austrian troops restored the King of the Two Sicilies to the unconstitutional monarchy. The Verona congress of 1822 had two results: the first was that the Spanish revolution would be brutally repressed. The congress that led to the suppression of the Spanish Revolution stood in stark contrast to the various alliances aimed at invading or confiscating territories previously, and was a fundamental event in the European international order. The second result of the congress was that Britain, unaffected by Metternich's ambitions, would withdraw from continental affairs and instead, under the leadership of the new Foreign Secretary George Canning, exploit the South American revolutions and support the American Monroe Doctrine. Britain would dominate Latin America's commercial interests for the remainder of the century.