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Many died here of French disease, losing both feet
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gallipoli
Alternative clues for the word gallipoli
- Battle nerve is to bandage cut in retreat
- Turkish peninsula — scene of WWI campaign
- 1981 Mel Gibson film
- Abortive attack area of W. W. I
- Titular peninsula in a 1981 film about a 1915 military campaign
- World War 1 battle, first two leaving Libyan capital after bitterness
- Medicine served up in prison, one in disastrous campaign
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Gallipoli is a seven-part Australian television drama miniseries that was telecast on the Nine Network in 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign . The series premiered on 9 February 2015, and concluded four weeks later. It is adapted from ...
Usage examples of gallipoli.
Fewer men will volunteer for the army, and our men in the trenches in France and in Gallipoli, will be left to fight alone, until they’re beaten.
He concluded a treaty with Mahomet, whose progress was checked by the insuperable barrier of Gallipoli: the sultan and his troops were transported over the Bosphorus.
In 1353 the Turks had seized Gallipoli, key of the Hellespont, and thereby entered Europe.
It listed her publications: articles on subjects ranging from the evolution of Welsh to the deterioration of kinship allegiance among the population of Gallipoli since reintegration.
Danner recognized the tune as one that had been popular on Gallipoli about eight years ago.
On Gallipoli, a much smaller body that pulsed more frequently, the colonists were equally unaware.
When we came to the Macedonian coast in moonlight we sailed along it, and up the Dardanelles, looking out for village, yali, or any habitation where we might put up: but everything wrecked, Kilid- Bahr, Chanak-Kaleh, Gallipoli, Lapsaki in ruins.
Finally we slept in a forest on the other side of the strait, beyond Gallipoli, taking our few provisions, and having to wade at some points through morass two feet deep before we arrived at dry woodland.
His views on Gallipoli I regard as slightly unsound, since he makes me out at once a Cyrano, a jackass, and a poltroon.
Churchill managed to put a big force ashore in Gallipoli, thousands of miles from England.