Dual Alliance

Dual Alliance may refer to:

  • The Dual Alliance (1879) between Germany and Austria-Hungary
  • The Franco-Russian Alliance or Dual Alliance of 1894, between France and Tsarist Russia

Famous quotes containing the words dual and/or alliance:

    “Thee for my recitative,
    Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
    declining,
    Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat
    convulsive,
    Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Let it be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which beneath these disparities unites them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)