Dual Alliance

American  

noun

1. the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

2. the alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary against Russia 1879–1918.

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Dual Alliance British  

noun

1. the alliance between France and Russia (1893–1917)

2. the secret Austro-German alliance against Russia (1879) later expanded to the Triple Alliance

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Example Sentences

This is known as the Dual Alliance.

From Project Gutenberg

Rumania is listed as an ally of the World War I Dual Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary; it was not, but Bulgaria was.

From Time Magazine Archive

While for these reasons Germany and Austria may not have regarded such a war or the intervention of England therein as probable, yet the dual alliance recognized from the outset such a possibility.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus was forged the main financial link in the chain of common interests which soon after led to the Dual Alliance.

From Project Gutenberg

Fifteen years later the Jewish question also played a part in the curious Russo-German rapprochement which nearly wrecked the Dual Alliance.

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