1915
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1915 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1915th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 9
January 1: HMS Formidable, sunk by a German U-boat.
March 14: WWI: SMS Dresden, forced to scuttle by the Royal Navy.
May 7: WWI: RMS Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat.
August: Destruction by the 1915 Galveston hurricane.
Gallipoli campaign
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The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli Peninsula from 19 February 1915 to
1915
…Constantinople (Istanbul) and the Bosphorus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik Revolution). March 18 – WWI: Gallipoli campaign: A Franco-British naval attack on the Dardanelles fails. British Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought (1906) sinks German submarine U-29 with all hands…
A collection of photographs from the campaign. From top and left to right: Ottoman commanders including Mustafa Kemal (fourth from left); Entente warships; V Beach from the deck of SS River Clyde; Ottoman soldiers in a trench; and Allied positions
Winston Churchill between Talaat Bey and Cavid Bey (both wearing fezzes) during his private stay in Istanbul in July 1910
Panoramic view of the Entente fleet in the Dardanelles
French troops land at Lemnos, 1915.