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It is understood that the Monroe Doctrine was motivated by the Napoleonic Wars. The United States administration dreaded the triumphant European powers that arose from the Congress of Vienna would resuscitate the royal regime. “This Monroe Doctrine, then, in defense of which the United States showed themselves ready to expend so fast a quantity of blood and treasure, and which has even more recently complicated the question of Arbitration, is a force which calls for the attention of every student of modern international politics. A volcano is ever threatening us, and we must know its size and nature”.[5] France had decided earlier to reinstate the Spanish Monarchy as a substitute for Cuba. As the revolutionary Napoleonic Wars ended, Russia, Prussia, and Austria comprised the Holy Alliance to protect imperialism. Specifically, the Holy Alliance sanctioned military invasions to re-create Bourbon rule throughout Spain and its settlements, which were establishing their independence. The United Kingdom shared the common purpose of the Monroe Doctrine, if from a clearly conflicting perspective and definitive objective, and even desired to announce a combined declaration to prevent other European authorities from additionally settling the New World. The British Foreign Secretary George Canning desired to prevent the supplementary European influences out of the New World afraid that its trade with the New World would be harmed if the other European powers further colonized it. In effect, the United Kingdom, for many of the initial years of the Monroe Doctrine, was the only country implementing the expenditure its navy as the United States required the adequate naval abilities to provide the applicable implementation of the policy as declared. However, in 1829, in spite of the UK's lively agreement to the Monroe Doctrine and having donated to its application by preventing foreign influences out of the New World, stories spread that a collection of British traders tried to strike an arrangement with Mexico proposing five million dollars for Texas, which would be held under the defense of the United Kingdom. Eventually, nothing came of the British traders' offer but the story showed to be true -- a pure defilement of the Monroe Doctrine. Permitting Spain to re-institute control of its former settlements would have cut the United Kingdom off from its lucrative trade with the district. For that reason, Canning offered to the United States that they equally announce and apply a rule of unscrambling the new world from the old. The United States struggled with a combined declaration because of the recent recollection of the War of 1812, foremost to the Monroe government's autonomous declaration.[6]
5. W.F. Reddaway, The Monroe Doctrine (The University Press, 1898), 2.
6. W.P. Cresson, The Holy Alliance (Oxford University Press, 1922), 135.
5. W.F. Reddaway, The Monroe Doctrine (The University Press, 1898), 2.
6. W.P. Cresson, The Holy Alliance (Oxford University Press, 1922), 135.