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Definition of Dardanelles campaign
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Campaign, Military Campaign
Group relationships: First World War, Great War, War To End War, World War 1, World War I
Geographical relationships: Republic Of Turkey, Turkey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dardanelles Campaign
Literary usage of Dardanelles campaign
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief History of the Great War by Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (1920)
"Instead of admitting defeat and abandoning the Dardanelles campaign entirely,
however, the Allies decided to disembark THE Dardanelles campaign, ..."
2. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"The 55 strength of our enemy, they showed time is ripe for such a book by such
a man. our enemy what we intended to do, they i The Dardanelles campaign. ..."
3. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"The Dardanelles campaign was largely conceived and controlled by the Rt. Hon.
Winston Spencer Churchill, the remarkable and able British Secretary of the ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"... for Allah's sake, did not General Monro take advantage of that rare opportunity?
As the immediate result of the abandonment of the Dardanelles campaign ..."
5. Two War Years in Constantinople by Harry Stuermer (1917)
"... for the "liberation of the Caucasus"—The Dardanelles campaign; the fate of
Constantinople twice hangs in the balance— Nervous tension in international ..."
6. The Cradle of the War: The Near East and Pan-Germanism by Henry Charles Woods (1918)
"... IX THE Dardanelles campaign IN the previous chapter, I have endeavoured to
show that for years the situation in the East has been ..."
7. With the Zionists in Gallipoli by John Henry Patterson (1916)
"CHAPTER II GENERAL POLICY OF THE Dardanelles campaign MANY leaders of thought in
England, whose convictions should certainly carry weight, ..."
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