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Oct 2020
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The Battle of Gallipoli (1915) How Atatu...

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The Allies desperately wanted to take control of the Dardanelles (the straights connecting Constantinople with the Mediterranean). They were crucial to Russia and would make it possible for Russia to (in effect) have a warm-water port. The only... 
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