With Constantinople as Its Objective: Lord Kitchener and Winston Churchill
Richard Prior and Trevor Wilson, 14 January 2002
In the course of 1915, British naval and military forces, assisted by units from France and the British dominions, sought to gain mastery of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli. Their ultimate object was to knock Germany’s ally Turkey out of the Great War. The operation was conducted in two phases. First, an attempt was made to rush a naval force through the Dardanelles to bombard or overawe...
