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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Dual Alliance

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

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

The motives and even the terms of the Dual Alliance are imperfectly known.

From The European Anarchy by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

Starting from that point, we must notice in order the formation of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, of the Dual Alliance between France and Russia, of the Anglo-French and the Anglo-Russian understandings.

From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

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