Preamble to Gallipoli: British Amphibious Planning in The Eastern Mediterranean, 1906-1915

Yıl 2016, Sayı: 29, 1 - 10, 30.06.2016

Yigal Sheffy

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The Gallipoli-Dardanelles Campaign has been commonly presented as deriving from the stalemate on the Western Front, Russian difficulties and pressure, and political ambitions of British First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. The article, based primarily on British archival documentation, argues that the factor of the earlier British amphibious perception vis-à-vis operations in the Eastern Mediterranean should be added to these causes, epitomized in early twentieth-century planning of amphibious operations along the Syria-Palestine coast, especially in the Haifa and Alexandretta regions.

Anahtar Kelimeler

: joint operations, amphibious operations, Taba Affair, Syria, Palestine, Alexandretta, Haifa, British army, Royal Navy, Ottoman Empire, military planning.

Çanakkale’ye Giriş: Doğu Akdeniz’de İngiliz Amfibi Planlaması, 1906-1915

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Çanakkale’ye Giriş: Doğu Akdeniz’de İngiliz Amfibi Planlaması, 1906-1915

Anahtar Kelimeler

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, İngiliz ordusu

Kaynakça

• Archival sources
• The National Archives, Kew.
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
• Printed and published sources
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