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

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

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

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