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noun

Dardanelles n.

The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European from Asian Turkey.

Synonyms: Hellespont.

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.

Synonyms: Dardanelles campaign.

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... Nicholas then demanded from the Sultan the right of protecting the Sultan's Christian subjects himself, and when this was refused, he occupied Moldavia and Wallachia with his troops. England's reply was to send a fleet up the Dardanelles. ...

— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell

... dissertation of M. d'Anville upon the Hellespont or Dardanelles, in the Memoires tom. xxviii. p. 318—346. Yet even that ingenious geographer is too fond of supposing new, and perhaps imaginary measures, for the purpose of rendering ancient writers as accurate as himself. The stadia employed by Herodotus in the ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... "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 ...

— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... admiration and of all of mine own folk When you paired off with the ghastly Turk, that was a master stroke. And all the things you did before, just now seem weak and tame Since you launched that Dardanelles campaign of pillage, lust and shame. To fuss thus with my chosen race, my ally since time dates Proclaimed that Kultur and the Turk are well matched running mates. And tho I've watched hell's orgies, and stood by in fiendish glee, I quit you, Bill, these Turkish ...

— Rhymes of a Roughneck • Pat O'Cotter

... the cope-stone of Imperialism. It is the grim expression of a faith that is everlasting, of a love that shall endure the shocks of years, and all the cunning devilry of such as the Barbarous Huns. Hence this little book. It is an inspiration of the Dardanelles, where I met many of our Australasian friends. It is not an official history. I have, in my own way, endeavoured to picture what like these warring Bohemians are. The cloak of fiction has here and ...

— The Kangaroo Marines • R. W. Campbell

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