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n. - The unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey.

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  • The Dardanelles Straits are overlooked by high cliffs on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
  • Russia entering the Dardanelles is an instance of this, and the Bosnian frontier at this moment is another.
  • Dardanelles is exposed in the Memoirs of the Baron de Tott, (tom.iii. p. 39 — 97,) who was sent to fortify them against the
  • We sailed through the barren Archipelago, and into the narrow channel they sometimes call the Dardanelles and sometimes the Hellespont.
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