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Dardanelles campaign

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: Dardanelles.





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... responsibility those who had designed its inception and directed its earlier course; and a Commission, which was appointed in the following summer, produced on 8th March 1917 an interim report which threw a vivid but partial and biased light not only on the Dardanelles campaign, but on the governmental organization which was responsible for the failures as well as the successes of the British Empire during the greater part of the war. Both were largely the outcome of that autocracy in war with which popular sentiment and the ...
— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard


Words linked to "Dardanelles campaign" :   First World War, campaign, turkey, War to End War, Dardanelles, World War I, Republic of Turkey, World War 1, Great War, military campaign


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