In 53 BC the Treveri broke their alliance and attempted to break free of Rome.

The alliance commonly known as the Second Triumvirate, renewed for a five-year term in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of Julius Caesar and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII, as a major threat to his power.

This posed a direct threat to British hegemony on the seas, with the result that negotiations for an alliance between Germany and Britain broke down.

In the 12th century the Almoravid empire broke up again, only to be taken over by the Almohad invasion, who were defeated by an alliance of the Christian kingdoms in the decisive battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212.

Before the war broke out, Poland entered into a full military alliance with Britain and France ; the western powers lacked the will to confront Nazi Germany and their ( false ) assurances of imminent military action were only intended as pressure applied to deter Hitler.

When World War I broke out in 1914, despite Greece's treaty of alliance with Serbia, both leaders preferred to maintain a neutral stance.

The two kings then went crusading during the Third Crusade however their alliance and friendship broke down during the crusade.

This led to intensified conflicts between KMT and CPC forces, and the fragile alliance broke down after the New Fourth Army incident in January 1941.

When Nobunaga launched a campaign into the Asakura clan's domain, Azai Nagamasa, to whom Oichi was married, broke the alliance with Oda to honor the Azai-Asakura alliance which had lasted for generations.

Hiero's successor, the young Hieronymus ( ruled from 215 BC ), broke the alliance with the Romans after their defeat at the Battle of Cannae and accepted Carthage's support.

After the death of Henry II ( 3 July 1024 ), Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad II claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the Duchy of Bavaria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor Henry II ( who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria ).

Simultaneously with the success of the Russian attack, Romania broke the military alliance with the Axis and changed sides.

However, in the 2001 parliamentary elections PSL received 9 % of votes and formed a coalition with the Democratic Left Alliance, an alliance which later broke down.

The Almohad caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, manages to broke an alliance with the king of León Ferdinand II against Afonso.

The Mercian earl was sidelined, especially after Harold and Tostig broke the Welsh-Mercian alliance in 1063.

The Communists ' two allied parties broke their long-standing alliance, forcing Jaruzelski to appoint Solidarity's Tadeusz Mazowiecki as the country's first non-Communist prime minister since 1948.

After a period of alliance with France, Belgium tried to return to neutrality in the 1930s but by September 1939 war broke out in Europe and Germany invaded the Low Countries within the year.

The next pope, Paul III, broke the alliance with France and refused to pay her huge dowry.

* 418 Battle of Mantinea, greatest land battle of war, gives Sparta victory over Argos, which broke treaty, Alcibiades thrown out, alliance broken

Moreover, its alliance with Deutsche Telekom based on a reciprocal capital contribution of 2 % broke off when Deutsche Telekom announced that they were planning to do business with Telecom Italia without letting know the French – even if this project ended up failing.

In 1125, after the death of Aguda, the Jin broke the alliance with the Song and invaded North China.

However, the poor performance and military weakness of the Song army was observed by the Jurchens who immediately broke the alliance with the Song, launching an invasion into Song territory in 1125 and another in 1127 ; in this latter invasion, the Jurchens captured not only the Song capital at Kaifeng, but the retired emperor Huizong, his successor Qinzong, and most of the Imperial court.

The Catholics broke their alliance with the ARP and support a conservative cabinet.

The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

She proposed an alliance, something which she had refused to do when offered one by Feodor's father, but was turned down.

Hitler turned down this idea of Ribbentrop's, but nonetheless during his meeting with Lord Halifax, Ribbentrop spent much of the meeting demanding that Britain sign an alliance with Germany and return the former German colonies.

Unlike the other factions, Ribbentrop's foreign policy programme was the only one that Hitler allowed to be executed during the years 1939 – 41, though it was more due to the temporary bankruptcy of Hitler's own foreign policy programme that he had laid down in Mein Kampf and Zweites Buch following the failure to achieve an alliance with Britain, than to a genuine change of mind.

Moríñigo's intentions about stepping down were murky, however, and his de facto alliance with Colorado Party hardliners and their thuggish Guión Rojo ( red script ) paramilitary group antagonized the opposition.

The alliance will never happen because Henry's elder heir, Henry the Young King, gets jealous over the castles which the elder Henry promises to the couple and stages a rebellion which will take the elder Henry two years to put down.

Already strained relations between Nasser and Qasim grew increasingly bitter, with the former considering the latter as unworthy and dependent on the USSR while Qasim looked down on Nasser's Arab nationalism, believing only an alliance with the USSR would help the Arabs succeed against Israel.

It was here at the Vulcanal that, according to the story, the two parties laid down their weapons and formed an alliance.

Her father, Chief Slyhorse Schluyhus, agreed to their marriage as a political alliance, but he stipulated as a condition that Richard must settle down.

She proposed an alliance, something which she had refused to do when offered one by Feodor's father, but was turned down.

The airline started negotiating airline alliance with larger haulers, but turned both those and a merger proposal with SAS down.

Or according to their familiar ties a usual marriage alliance was renewed between their families, interpreted in the Asturians court as a diplomatic victory over the independent Basque Duchy ; or, a much needed collaboration between the two Houses to reduce a seceding faction of the Alavese Basques risking a defection of these to the Banu Qasi down in the Ebro valley, with the hand of his cousin Munia as prize.

King John II Casimir of Poland didn't take the Swedish-Prussian alliance lying down.

The Iroquois were in alliance with the Dutch and English, which allowed them to interrupt the French fur trade and send the furs down the Hudson River to the Dutch and English traders.

With official approval to begin negotiations on a formal alliance given by King Louis XVI, the colonies turned down a British proposal for reconciliation in January 1778 and began negotiations that would result in the signing of The Treaty of Amity and Commerce and The Treaty of Alliance.

He lived thenceforward in the convent of the Celestines in Paris, but nevertheless continued to exert an influence on public affairs, and to his close alliance with Louis of Orleans may be put down the calumnies with which the Burgundian historians covered his name.

On 16 June 1981, this arrangement was formalised into an alliance, with both parties agreeing to stand down in each other's favour.

Only three years later, however, the Fatherland Front -- an alliance of the Heimwehr and the Christian Social Party -- tore down Austrian parliamentarism altogether, formally annulling the constitution on 1 May 1934.

Never one to sit idly by if American interests were ( in his view ) threatened, Hull would think nothing of dressing down close allies, such as what happened to New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser in early 1944, over U. S. objections to the Canberra Pact ( a military treaty of alliance between Australia and New Zealand made in February 1944 without U. S. consultation ).