T he Gallipoli Peninsula, forming the western edge of the Çanakkale Strait (the Dardanelles), is where history whispers through the crisp fall air and the crunch of gravel underfoot. As you walk ...

The beach here is wide, the route march eastwards to the Dardanelles over ... that in front of a giant map of the battlefield. "There are four phases of the Gallipoli campaign," he says.

The invasion of Gallipoli, a peninsula squeezed between the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles in what is now ... the new data on a highly detailed 1916 map compiled by Ottoman cartographers ...

The strait on its southern shore is the Dardanelles—or ... In short, a glance at Gallipoli on a map will tell you why it was doomed to be a bone of contention on which nation-states would ...

Map showing allies’ planned offensive against the Ottoman Empire. Sea battle at the entrance to the Dardanelles. War Memorial at Gallipoli. War graves. The reporter is Colm Connolly.

On April 25, 1915 allied forces landed in what is typically called the Gallipoli or Dardanelles Campaign (Battle of Canakkale by Turkey). London admitted defeat and withdrew its forces eight and a ...

ISTANBUL - The World War I battlefield of the Gallipoli campaign ... The fighting happened near the mouth of the Dardanelles strait, part of a conduit between the Mediterranean Sea and the ...

A century to the day since the bloody Gallipoli campaign was launched ... the tens of thousands slaughtered on the beaches of the Dardanelles. At the same time, her son, the Prince of Wales ...

The troops were under the command of General Sir Ian Hamilton, and were to clear the Gallipoli Peninsula to allow the passage of the Allied fleet up the Dardanelles Straits. Hamilton was faced ...