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Dardanelles

noun
1.
The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey.  Synonyms: Canakkale Bogazi, Hellespont.
2.
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.  Synonym: Dardanelles campaign.






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"Dardanelles" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other, "for I axed the very question when I was up the Dardanelles. There be a big black fellow, a unique they calls him, with a large sword and a bag of sawdust, as always stands sentry at the door, and if so be a woman kirks up a bobbery, why plump her head goes into ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... active in a finer sense; my own next apprehension of it at least was in reading the five admirable sonnets that had been published in "New Numbers" after the departure of his contingent for the campaign at the Dardanelles. To read these in the light of one's personal knowledge of him was to draw from them, inevitably, a meaning still deeper seated than their noble beauty, an authority, of the purest, attended with which his name inscribes ...
— Letters from America • Rupert Brooke

... Woonsocket, having made its placid way across the Mediterranean, up the Aegean Sea, and through the Dardanelles to the Bosporous, stopped overnight at Istanbul and then turned around and went back. On the way in, it had stopped at Gibraltar, Barcelona, Marseilles, Genoa, Naples, and Athens—the main friendly ports on the northern side of the Mediterranean. ...
— The Foreign Hand Tie • Gordon Randall Garrett

... 29-April 4.—The Dardanelles operations are fizzling out in melancholy fashion. Owing to the fact that we began the naval bombardment before our land forces had arrived, the Turks have been able to repair nearly all the damage. However, now that Ian Hamilton has arrived to direct operations ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

... all the war, till we came up North," was the Lieutenant-Commander's reply. "You'll have to use the same knife for the butter; hope you don't mind. We get into piggish ways here, I'm afraid.... Amusin' work at times, but nothing to the Dardanelles; we never got out there, though; spent all our time nuzzling sandbanks off the Ems and thereabouts. Of course, one sees more of Fritz in that way, but I can't say it exactly heightens one's opinion of him. We used to think at the beginning of the war that Fritz was ...
— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie



Words linked to "Dardanelles" :   Great War, War to End War, World War I, military campaign, Republic of Turkey, First World War, sound, strait, turkey, campaign, World War 1



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