Map of the western end of the Dardanelles waterway showing the entrance, with Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsular, Kum Kale on the Asiatic shore and the Narrows at Chanak: Gallipoli campaign Part I: the Naval Bombardment, March 1915 in the First World War Place: The Gallipoli Peninsular forms the northern shore of the Dardanelles, the narrow waterway leading from the north east corner of the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmora, the city of Constantinople (in 1915 the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire) and then to the Black Sea. The Dardanelles and Gallipoli: The campaign during 1915 conducted by the British and the French, using British, French and Australian warships and British, French, Australian, New Zealand and Indian troops, to take the Gallipoli Peninsular, penetrate the Dardanelles waterway and capture Constantinople, thereby knocking the Ottoman Turkish Empire out of the First World War. The next battle of the First World War is Gallipoli Part II: Genesis of the land attack on the Gallipoli Peninsula The previous battle of the First World War is the Battle of the Dogger Bank

British battleship HMS Agamemnon bombarding the Dardanelles Straits: Gallipoli campaign Part I: the Naval Bombardment, February 1915 in the First World War

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