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Dardanelles campaign

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Noun1.Dardanelles campaign - the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks
First World War, Great War, War to End War, World War 1, World War I - a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923


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Bulgarian cemeteries Kellaway recently conducted his first ever trip to Bulgaria, visiting war graves in Plovdiv and Sofia on the way back from a visit to Gallipoli in Turkey, the site of the tragic Dardanelles campaign that claimed half a million lives in World War 1.
But once World War I is under way and he establishes a disastrous record in the Dardanelles campaign and on the shores of Gallipoli, we get only this: "I think Churchill was made a scapegoat for the mistakes and irresolution of others.
The fourth HMS Prince of Wales saw extensive action in the Napoleonic Wars and the sixth served in the bloody Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War.
 
 
 
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