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

Since I have been in the countries of the Dual Alliance I have been anxious to secure a clear and reasonable declaration of the motives which actuate the leading men in the nations comprising it.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher

From St. Petersburg and Paris overbearing threats came in increasing numbers to the effect that the power of the Dual Alliance was now gigantic and that Germany and Austria soon would begin to feel it.

From New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? by Various

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

Why was Colonel House so confident that the Dual Alliance was prepared at this time to discuss terms of peace?

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Hendrick, Burton Jesse