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6

BRAW LADDIES AMIDST THE CLASH OF THE EMPIRES

The naval plan was put into operation

on 19 February 1915 under the command

of Vice-Admiral Sackville Carden. Carden

proposed to destroy the outer defences

first, using his ships’ long-range heavy

weapons against targets at the entrance

to the straits. Once the defences had

been breached he would move in closer

to destroy the remaining gun positions

and the reduction of the defences would

allow the minefields to be swept safely.

At that point it would be possible for the

British and French Fleets to proceed to

Constantinople (today Istanbul).

The campaignwas thereforenot planned

as a land operation.Troops would be used,

T H E F I R S T NAVA L A S S AU L T

Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of War, also planned to use the Australian and New Zealand

Army Corps (ANZAC), then training in Egypt. Meanwhile the French agreed to deploy the Corps

Expéditionnaire d’Orient,a mixed force of French and NorthAfrican troops.

V Beach, where the British suffered particularly heavy casualties, 25 April 1915