📅 On This Day in Military History

April 8

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⚔️📍 London, England1904

Entente Cordiale — Britain and France Ally

Britain and France signed the Entente Cordiale, resolving colonial disputes in Africa and Asia and establishing a framework for military cooperation. The agreement ended centuries of Anglo-French rivalry.

The Entente Cordiale was the diplomatic foundation of the Allied coalition in WWI and committed Britain to defend France — drawing it into the war in 1914.

Outcome

Anglo-French alliance formed; shapes WWI coalition