The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . in the historyof nations. The Turks had seen hardfighting in the Balkan wars and theirarmy was trained and campaign hard-ened. Officered and disciplined by Ger-man officers, the Turk army of a millionmen made a formidable addition to theCentral Powers and one which constantlymenaced the plans of the Allies. Thenecessity of putting Turkey out of thewar quickly was seen and the British warcouncil decided on the attack to force thefamous waterway between the Mediter-ranean and the Black Sea and bring thefall of Co
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . in the historyof nations. The Turks had seen hardfighting in the Balkan wars and theirarmy was trained and campaign hard-ened. Officered and disciplined by Ger-man officers, the Turk army of a millionmen made a formidable addition to theCentral Powers and one which constantlymenaced the plans of the Allies. Thenecessity of putting Turkey out of thewar quickly was seen and the British warcouncil decided on the attack to force thefamous waterway between the Mediter-ranean and the Black Sea and bring thefall of Constantinople. The campaig-n onland and sea resulted in a fiasco which wasa terrible blow to British prestige andBritish pride and caused the loss of sev-eral l)attleships and 200,000 men. Ihe forty-seven miles of fortifiedwaterway known as the Dardanelles hadbeen the focus of international affairs inEurope and Asia for centuries. Calledthe Hellespont by the ancients, it hadbeen sailed through, steamed through andmarched across in boats of bridge since 93 94 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK. Looking at First Sight Like a Group of Antediluvian Monsters Squatting in the Open BeforeStarting on Their Prowl. At a Tankdrome on the Cambrai Front. the memory of man rail not to the contrary. Aronnd the green tables of diplo-macy, too, had the contest been had consistently fought for theopening up of the Dardanelles. An out-let from the Black Sea to the Mediter-ranean was her greatest economic neces-sity. England had contended against thisconsistently, but, strangely enough, it wason the theory that the opening- of thestraits would bring aid to her ally in thefree passage of wheat and munitions, thatled Great Britain to undertake the attackin February of 1915. At the close of thewar, nearly four years later, the Darda-nelles still could be called , the Turk was defeated and Constan-tinople and the Dardanelles were underAllied control, but it took the years ofland fighting
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