Long lasting political alliances

**NodachiSam** · 09-14-2005, 02:58

Does anyone know any examples of long lasting political partnerships/ alliances. Most countries have gone to war with their neighbours at least once but are there any remarkable incidents of two powers being very friendly to each other for long periods of time perhaps because of cultural similarity and mutal enemies?

The longest lasting political friendliess I can think of is not even two hundred years lasting (between Canada and the US) but that is mostly due to the limitations of my knowledge of history.

This train of curiosity was spurred by a thread in the guild about the best allies in MTW. In the game an ally might still attack you when they see a good opportunity despite factors like having an alliance lasting near or over a century, shared royal geneology, and shared religion and mutual enemies at one point or another.

**GoreBag** · 09-14-2005, 03:14

Scotland and France had a kind of "on-again, off-again" relationship because of their mutual issues with England often called The Auld Alliance. It benefited the French occasionally and very rarely, if at all, the Scots.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 09-14-2005, 04:51

Originally Posted by NodachiSam

The longest lasting political friendliess I can think of is not even two hundred years lasting (between Canada and the US) but that is mostly due to the limitations of my knowledge of history.

Well, we invaded Canada twice, and relations were "cordial" throughout the middle 1800's, but hardly close. Since then the relationship has been friendly, but not truly an Alliance until NATO in 1957.

It may be that the Anglo-AMerican alliance forged in 1941 and maintained to the present is the closest and longest-lived. The "special relationship" is an exceptionally close alliance by the standard of international affairs (though a sizeable percentage of the English public (and a smaller percentage of their leaders) would prefer to repudiate it, as would the more isolationist fringe in the USA).

Seamus

**thrashaholic** · 09-14-2005, 08:23

Britain (or England as it was back then) and Portugal have had an alliance lasting over 600 years. We both signed the Treaty of Windsor in 1386 after fighting alongside each other against the Spanish. As far as I am aware, this alliance has never been broken.