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A cartoon on the Entente Cordiale from Punch, with John Bull stalking off with the harlot Marianne (in what is supposed to be a Tricolour dress) and turning his back on the Kaiser, who pretends not to care. The tip of the scabbard of a cavalry sabre protrudes from beneath the Kaiser's army overcoat, implying a potential resort to force.
An entente (/ ɑː n ˈ t ɑː n t /) is a type of treaty or military alliance in which the signatories promise to consult each other or to cooperate in the event of a crisis or military action. [1] Examples include the Entente Cordiale between France and the United Kingdom and the Triple Entente between France, Russia and the United Kingdom. [1]
This left it dangerously exposed as Europe divided into opposing power blocs and the 1895–1905 Conservative government negotiated first the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, then the 1904 Entente Cordiale with France. [22] The first tangible result of this shift was British support for France against Germany in the 1905 Moroccan Crisis.
A 1904 British cartoon commenting on the Entente Cordiale: John Bull walking off with Marianne, turning his back on the Kaiser. Likewise, the musician, playwright and Irish Republican Dominic Behan criticized the British government via the proxy of John Bull in his popular ballad, The Patriot Game: This Ireland of mine has for long been half free,
Article 3 of the alliance promised support if either signatory became involved in war with more than one power, and thus had the effect of deterring France from assisting its ally Russia in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. Instead, France concluded the Entente Cordiale with Britain and limited its support of Russia to providing loans. [1]
The Entente, unlike the Triple Alliance and the Franco-Russian Alliance, was not an alliance of mutual defense and so Britain was free to make its own foreign policy decisions in 1914. As British Foreign Office Official Eyre Crowe minuted, "The fundamental fact, of course, is that the Entente is not an alliance. For purposes of ultimate ...
China’s military released an animation on Sunday depicting the journey to reunite two halves of a torn scroll across the Taiwan Strait, a thinly veiled reference to the country’s longstanding ...
Entente (alliance), a type of treaty or military alliance where the signatories promise to consult each other or to cooperate with each other in case of a crisis or military action; Entente Cordiale (1904) between France and the United Kingdom; Anglo-Russian Entente (1907) between the United Kingdom and Russia