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

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

If the Dual Alliance is victorious we shall have certain compensations that to my deep conviction will be far from satisfying our national aspirations.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various

On this evidence Mr. Beck has argued in the following article the case of Dual Alliance vs.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

It would have been too full of risk even if she had not desired peace, the Franco-Russian Dual Alliance notwithstanding.

From Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount

It formed a loose pendant to the Dual Alliance between France and Russia, which was binding and solid.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland