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)

    “It is a power stronger than will.... Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.”
    —Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)