ALLIES FORCE THE DARDANELLES

On March 1 a great allied fleet of forty British and French warships, having reduced the forts at the entrance to the Dardanelles, was on its way through the straits and the Sea of Marmora to Constantinople, with the object of capturing the city.

Panic prevailed in the Turkish capital at the approach of the fleet, while for the first time in history hostile flags flew over the forts at the mouth of the Dardanelles.

"At 12:22 o'clock the French squadron, consisting of the Suffren, Gaulois, Charlemagne and Bouvet, advanced up the Dardanelles and engaged the forts at closer range.

ALLIED TROOPS AT THE DARDANELLES

On April 25-27, a strong force of British and French troops under General Sir Dan Hamilton effected a landing on both sides of the Dardanelles, to co-operate with the allied fleets seeking to force a passage through the straits to the Bosporus.

The bombardment of the Turkish forts in the Dardanelles by the allied warships was continued.

In the determined attack on the Dardanelles, land forces of British and French troops co-operated with the combined fleets.

THE DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN.

The struggle of combined land and sea forces of the Allies to gain control of the Dardanelles, and thus open the way for the British and French fleets to Constantinople and the Black Sea, continued through the autumn of 1915 and furnished some of the most sanguinary battles of the war.

" Many weeks of bloody fighting followed and while there was talk early in November of a possible abandonment of the Dardanelles campaign, the end of the month found the struggle still in progress, with no end in sight.

OPENS UP THE DARDANELLES

On the very last day of October, 1918, Turkey surrendered to the British, opening the Dardanelles and through those waters giving the allied fleets access to the German-dominated Black Sea and the coast of southern Russia, and putting at the mercy of the allies the only active units of the German navy.

He died fore I left Dardanelle.

When Miss Betty Holland married Mr. Cargo she lived close to Dardanelle.

It was Mrs. Brown, twenty miles from Dardanelle, they bound me over to.

He died at Dardanelle before I come way from there.

My father was born in old Virginny in 1831 and died in Yell County, Arkansas, eight miles from Dardanelle, in 1916.

Little old train was no bigger dan de Dardanelle & Russellville train.

I was so small and as soon as the War was done a whole gang of us come from Texas to Dardanelle, Arkansas.

I worked for him at Dardanelle

I don't think Ed owned land over at Dardanelle but my father owned eighty acres over there when he died.

But us didn't get no further than Dardanelle when the Federals captured us and took us back to the Federal garrison at Ft. Smith, where they kept us six months.

Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas.

Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas.