The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles), the gateway between Europe and Asia

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The Entente entering the Dardanelles, caricature from 1915/16

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles), the gateway between Europe and Asia.

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"Every shot fired in the is a shot fired into the Chicago wheat pit... during the Dardanelles operations American wheat prices have come down from 163½ cents per bushel to 154 cents."

Unnamed London trader, 11th March 1915.

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"Canakkale 18 Mart 1915." When reading history I always have to look at maps to make sense of what's happening and to make it all more real. Here we see the Gallipoli peninsula on the Dardanelles Strait. A gateway to the Gallipoli WWI battlefields. Source: https://t.co/10whqPu0Mr

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles) - the gateway between Europe and Asia

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles) - the gateway between Europe and Asia.

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles), the gateway between Europe and Asia

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French Navy battleship FS Gaulois during the bombardment in Dardanelles of Turkish Forts on 19 February 1915

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles), the gateway between Europe and Asia.

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles) - the gateway between Europe and Asia.

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles) - the gateway between Europe and Asia

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles), the gateway between Europe and Asia

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles) - the gateway between Europe and Asia

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The satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia. This region was of vital, strategic importance as it controlled the Hellespont (Dardanelles), the gateway between Europe and Asia.

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in 1915, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents his plan for an assault on the Dardanelles. The failure of the campaign would result in his resignation from office as caricatured in this cartoon by Olaf Gulbransson in Simplicissimus

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