Triple Entente
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an informal understanding among Great Britain, France, and Russia based on a Franco-Russian military alliance (1894), an Anglo-French entente (1904), and an Anglo-Russian entente (1907). It was considered a counterbalance to the Triple Alliance but was terminated when the Bolsheviks came into control in Russia in 1917.
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the member nations of this entente.
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It’ll be hard to know whether to qualify for it or sign a triple entente in the hope it’ll see us through the group stage.
From The Guardian
As the powers sought to head off these challenges, they formed into the triple entente of Britain, Russia and France and the triple alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
From Economist
Yet, those who see a conspiracy to plunder Arab lands ignore how the Triple Entente bumbled its way into this situation in the first place.
From Forbes
In speaking of the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France, and Russia, I told him I thought that, from a British point of view, it was unwise.
From Project Gutenberg
Rothschild, Alfred, on the Triple Entente, 305, 306.
From Project Gutenberg
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