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Dardanelles

Dardanelles

1 9.1
A failed 1915 World War I attack by British and French forces to capture the Dardanelles sea passage
  • proper noun
translation icon : campaña de los Dardanelos
  • But it didn't matter where you came from—not in the Dardanelles.
  • Dardanelles campaign
  • Dardanelles campaign in 1915
  • failure in the Dardanelles

So he was very successful in that he had the British Navy ready for the First World War and then the catastrophe of the Dardanelles struck.

Examples

  • He's never felt ashamed of what he has done in the Dardanelles.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • "Shot in the Dardanelles," he repeated, his voice wheezy with the fumes from the coal fire.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • He was responsible for several hundreds of thousands of people dying in the Dardanelles in the First World War.

  • He had been shot, he told me, in the Dardanelles.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • So he was very successful in that he had the British Navy ready for the First World War and then the catastrophe of the Dardanelles struck.

    Triggernometry

  • When people questioned this traditional system, they were recognizing the grand scale of death on the battlefield, especially after the resounding failure in the Dardanelles, which initiated the transformation from the volunteer adventure-war-hero to the conscripted Tommy, an abrupt change in national identity.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The failure of the Dardanelles campaign in 1915 had significant consequences for the Allied forces.

  • The Dardanelles were strategically important during World War I, as they provided a critical sea route to Russia.

  • Many historians analyze the Dardanelles campaign to understand the military strategies used in World War I.

Synonyms

Gallipoli Campaign
vsDardanelles
1 9.7

Allied attack in World War I in 1915 to take the Gallipoli peninsula that failed against Turkish forces

focuses on seizing the strait rather than attacking the nearby peninsula
Dardanelles campaign
vsDardanelles
9.1

A failed 1915 Allied attack that tried to take the Dardanelles Strait to open a sea route to Russia

is the same event but expressed with a shorter simpler name

Compounds

Dardanelles campaign
9.1

A failed 1915 Allied attack that tried to take the Dardanelles Strait to open a sea route to Russia

Surface Forms

Dardanelles main

Etymology

Dardanelles is also the name given to the 1915 military campaign because the Allies tried to seize the Dardanelles strait to reach Russia by sea. That's why the campaign is called the Dardanelles—it was an attempt to control that narrow and strategic waterway.