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

This loyalty to the Dual Alliance left France during the last days before the war in a cruel dilemma.

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

It seemed quite right and natural that he and Jan should presently enter into a sort of Dual Alliance.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway

If so, then something may be begun with the Dual Alliance.

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

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

From Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question by Wolf, Lucien