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British empire declared war
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Gallipoli campaign
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German battle cruisers enter turkey.
After avoiding the British warships in the Mediterranean, the German battle cruiser Goeben and light crusier Breslau arrived off the entrance to the Dardanelles and requested permission by the turkish to enter the straits. The Turks let the German warships through to Constantinople (former name for Istanbul) where they were partly handed over to the Turkish navy. -
War starts
The Russians defeated a large Turkish army in the Caucasus at Sarikamish. The battle was fought in a temperature of -30 degrees. 30,000 Turks froze to death. Before this, the Russians asked british to make a diversion against the turks. -
Turkish mines explode
The Turkish navy minelayer Nusrat set a line of twenty mines in Erenkoy Bay. This row of mines was responsible for sinking three British and French ships. During the next 2 days the british warships bombarded Kilihd Bahr and Fort Dardanos with not much results. -
The British and french attack Dardanelles forts
Eighteen British and French battleships, guarded by other warships, attacked the Dardanelles forts. The attack failed as three warships sunk and three disabled with a total loss of life to 700 sailors. -
Turkish destroy a battleship
The battleship "HMS Goliath" was sunk by three torpedoes that were fired from the Turkish destroyer Muavenet-I Millet. Goliath’s Captain, Thomas Lowrie-Shelford was lost along with 570 of his crew. -
More Germans arrive at gallipoli
News reaches Gallipoli that a German submarine had successfully passed through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean. -
germans sink battleships
from may 25th to may 30th 1915 the German submarine U21 torpedoed a few british ships including the HMS Triumph, HMS Majestic and the transport Tiger which had been disguised to make it look like a battle cruiser. -
British launch the third attack
The british started the thrid battle of Krithia on what was describes to be 'a beautiful summers day'. Although th British fought their way through the Turkish lines towards Krithia that advantage wan not followed up as the turkish line held. The british suffered more than 4,500 casualties, the French with more than 2,000 and the Turkish admitted to more than 9,000 soldiers that sufferd wounds or died. -
Further attacks
between 28th of june and 5th of july, Turkish forces at Helles attacked British positions at Gully Ravine. The turkish suffered 16,000 casualties in just 8 days with 10,000 of them having been killed. At this time the British rufused a truce for the second time (the other one was on the 24th of may 1915 at ANZAC) -
500 yards later
between june and july 13 the British army had moved on just 500 yards at Helles with a cost of more than 17,000 casualties, In the same amount of time the Turkish suffered 40,000+ casualties. One of the british soldies had writted that the battle field 'looked like a midded and smelt like an open cemetary'. -
More British soldiers come secretely
during the night on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of august an extra 20,000 british soldiers were brought ashore secretely at ANZAC for the proposes august attack. -
Harsh weather occurence
on the 27th and 28th of november life threatining rain and thunderstorms, which then turned into blizzards, hit Gallipoli. The Blizzard killed more than 280 men and there were 16,000 cases of frostbite and exposure. -
British soldiers evacuate
on the night of janurary 8th to the 9th British soldiers were evacuated from helles, bringing the three week evacuation and Gallipoli campaign to a close. 35,000 soldiers, 3,689 horses and mules, 127 guns, 328 vehicles and 1,600 tonnes of stores had been taken off Helles in just over a week. Around 508 horses and mules were slaughtered or left behind. -
End of the Battle
Turkish newspapers reported that ‘the whole of the Gallipoli Peninsula is now free from the enemy. They are driven out of Sedduülbahir
