02-07-2009
Canakkale – Gallipolli – Istanbul 335 km
In the morning, cross the Strait of the Da-Janelles by ferry. Continue to Gallipolli Peninsula where the Dardanelles War took place. Brief glance at the battlefields. In March 1915, during World War I (1914-18), British and French forces launched an ill-fated naval attack on Turkish forces in the Dardanelles in northwestern Turkey, hoping to take control of the strategically vital strait separating Europe from Asia. The failure of the campaign at the Dardanelles, along with the campaign that followed later that year in Gallipoli, resulted in heavy casualties and was a serious blow to the reputation of the Allied war command, including that of Winston Churchill, the British first lord of the admiralty, who had long been a proponent of an aggressive naval assault against Turkey at the Dardanelles.
