The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the "Çanakkale Savaşı" (Battle of Çanakkale) in Turkey, holds a distinctive position among the battlefields where Turks engaged during the First World War. Its significance extends beyond the strategic importance of the Straits and the campaign's deci...
WORLD WAR I His career was almost destroyed as a result of the unsuccessful Gallipoli campaign during the First World War. For ten years during the depression Churchill was denied cabinet office. Gallipoli Campaign WORLD WAR II World War II broke out in September 1939 when Germany marched into ...
The Great French Revolution, which destroyed absolutism and eliminated the material base of the French clergy by secularizing its lands, deprived Gallicanism of its former significance. Napoleon based the status of the French state church on the Declaration of the Gallican Church. In the 19th ...
Presently, the recollection of the Galician campaign among the Turkish populace does not categorize it as an "unnecessary war"; rather, it receives comparatively less attention than the renowned epic of Gallipoli or the tragic events of Sarıkamış, where the imperative of homeland defence ...
Initially given tactical duties such as coastal defence and blockade running, submarines were quick to prove their strategic significance during the First World War, especially in Gallipoli. Throughout the campaign, Allied submarines compelled Ottoman defenders increasingly to rely on land and railway ...
Ceraunus is also said to have killed Seleucus while they were hunting together near Lysmacheia, which had been Lysimachus' capital on the Gallipoli peninsula. Ceraunus claimed the throne of Thrace and Macedon, while the rest of Seleucus' domain passed to his half-Iranian son Antiochus. ...
On April 21 (May 2), during the Gallipoli Expedition, it shelled the fortifications on the Bosporus. The campaign of 1915 did not fulfill the hopes of either of the hostile coalitions, but its outcome was more favorable for the Entente. The German command, again failing to solve the ...
Troops at Gallipoli (IWM) A British officer who served with Sikhs at Festubert in 1914 The recent furore involving actor Laurence Fox, the film1917and the role of Sikh soldiers during the First World War reminded me of a plaque in the Grosvenor Chapel on South Audley Street in London’s...
A Memorial Headstone and Planting of Pines at Guildford Cemetery Victoria, Australia. The pines, planted here, were grown from seeds bought home from Gallipoli. The Battle of Lone Pinewas one of a series of actions fought by the Australian and New Zealand forces during the Gallipoli campaign. ...
Gallipoli World War I battlefield where the ANZAC forces faced the Turks in 1915 Nemrut Dağı Mysterious statues on a mountain peak in eastern Turkey Olimpos Treehouses, the Chimera or burning mountain, ruins, beaches Silk Road Hans