Definitions for "Congress of Vienna"
meeting of the four main victors over Napoleon and France: Austria, Britain, Prussia and Russia.
a meeting of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Great Britain to fashion a peace settlement having defeated France. (p. 757)
the treaty that resolved the Napoleonic Wars. The Congress of Vienna lasted until the early 1820s and was not as successful as the Concert of Europe. Part of the reason for the failure of the Congress of Vienna was that the more conservative states attempted to intervene, by military force if necessary, in the internal affairs of non-member states in order to prevent revolutionary uprisings. The interventionist inclinations of the conservative states led to bitter disputes amongst the members due to irreconcilable differences in ideology.