The Triple Entente (from French entente [ÉÌtÉÌt] friendship, understanding, agreement) was the understanding linking the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on 31 August 1907.ue to the alliance between Russia and France, and Bismarckâ²s exclusion of Russia from the German financial market in 1887, the treaty was not renewed, ending the alliance between Germany and Russia.
Richard Hakluyt, A Discourse Concerning Western Planting. (1584) [Richard Hakluyt was one of the earliest and indefatigable proponents of English colonization. This document was written to convince Queen Elizabeth I to suport the colonization schemes of Sir Walter Raleigh, and to encourage English merchants and gentry to invest in those enterprises.] 1.
What made the battle important was that it was the first large  battle of the war, and, in fact, involved more soldiers than any  other battle of the war.