The Entente Cordiale was a series of agreements signed on April 8, 1904 between the United Kingdom and France that resolved a range of long standing colonial disputes and markedly improved relations between the two countries. It recognized Egypt as within Britain's sphere of influence and Morocco within France's, settled French fishing rights off the coast of Newfoundland, adjusted colonial boundaries in West Africa, and demarcated zones of influence in Siam, Madagascar and the New Hebrides. Though not a formal military alliance, it ended centuries of intermittent Anglo-French rivalry and drew the two powers together in the face of a rising Germany, whose subsequent provocations over Morocco further reinforced the new partnership. The agreement laid the diplomatic groundwork for British and French cooperation in the First World War.
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the written and partly secret agreement signed in London between the two powers on 8 April 1904
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agreements signed on 8 April 1904
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The Entente Cordiale (; ) comprised a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom and France which saw a significant improv
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When used today the term almost always denotes the second Entente Cordiale, that is to say, the written and partly secret agreement signed in London between the two powers on 8 April 1904.
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'Cordial Agreement') comprised a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom and France which saw a significant improvement in Anglo-French relations.
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