Read The Dandarnelles Disaster Online
Authors: Dan Van der Vat
Agamemnon, HMS
(battleship)
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,
99
,
101
,
105
,
112
â
13
,
120
,
124
â
6
,
151
,
197
Agincourt, HMS/Sultan Osman/Rio de Janeiro
(Brazilian/Turkish/British battleship)
23
â
4
Albion, HMS
(battleship)
100
,
105
â
6
,
126
Allenby, General Sir Edmund
185
,
194
Antwerp
62
,
66
â
7
,
89
,
139
,
173
Anzac Cove (Gallipoli)
151
â
2
,
155
ANZACs (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps)
90
,
102
â
4
,
110
,
114
,
118
,
148
,
151
â
6
,
176
,
184
,
193
persecution and massacre by Turks
15
,
181
,
186
,
191
Asquith, Henry Herbert,
1
st Earl of Oxford and Asquith xii,
36
,
67
,
82
,
136
,
144
,
171
; forms coalition Cabinet
142
â
3
; and Dardanelles disaster
85
,
162
,
178
â
80
; and Fisher's final resignation
143
; and War Council
164
â
6
Atatürk: see Kemal, Mustafa
Audacious, HMS
(battleship)
65
,
66
Australia
145
,
153
â
4
,
157
see also
ANZACs (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) navy
65
,
158
Austria (and Austria-Hungary) xi,
11
,
12
,
50
â
1
,
56
,
62
; alliances
11
â
12
; declares war on Serbia
29
â
30
; interest in Ottoman Empire
9
; navy
16
,
39
,
67
Bacon, Admiral Sir Reginald
176
,
189
Balfour, Arthur (
later
Earl)
71
,
143
,
164
â
5
,
205
Balkan Wars (1912â13)
14
â
15
,
23
,
29
,
31
,
87
,
195
Balkans xi,
9
,
13
,
22
,
25
,
58
,
62
,
158
,
195
; Austrian-Russian rivalry over
10
,
12
Battenberg, Admiral of the Fleet Prince Louis Alexander of
64
,
67
,
68
,
139
Beatty, Admiral David,
1
st Earl
66
,
71
,
97
,
193
Berlin, Congress of (1878)
10
,
13
,
19
â
20
,
25
Berlin-Baghdad railway
11
,
12
,
25
,
129
â
30
,
159
Bieberstein, Baron Marschall von
25
â
6
Birdwood, General Sir William
103
â
4
,
110
,
118
,
131
,
148
,
154
,
162
,
176
Bismarck, Otto Prince von
9
,
10
,
11
,
25
Black Sea xii,
57
â
9
,
83
â
4
; bombardments in
59
,
70
,
74
,
96
; Mediterranean Division
51
â
2
,
57
â
9
; Russian fleet in
21
,
77
,
95
â
6
,
110
,
182
;
Blücher, SMS
(German hybrid cruiser)
98
â
9
Bosporus xii,
85
,
110
; defences
77
,
96
â
7
; international conventions and control
19
,
200
Bouvet
(French battleship)
5
,
123
â
4
,
126
â
7
Braithwaite, Major-General W P
119
,
122
Breslau, SMS
(later
Midilli;
German/Turkish light cruiser)
26
,
27
,
38
,
44
,
130
,
160
; in Black Sea
59
,
70
,
74
,
96
,
182
; coal shortages and coaling
31â
2
,
34
,
43
; escorted through Dardanelles
45
â
6
; exchange of shots with
Gloucester
45
,
50
; movements in Mediterranean
31
â
2
,
34
â
9
,
44
; renamed
52
,
53
,
55
; sights British battle cruisers
35
Brighton Beach (Gallipoli)
152
British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
61
,
66
,
72
,
81
,
114
,
167
Bulair
145
â
6
,
148
; Allied feint
110
,
111
,
115
,
150
,
153
Bulgaria
10
,
14
â
15
,
28
,
58
,
90
,
130
,
197
; and Great War
54
,
81
â
2
,
87
,
130
,
170
,
207
; peace
201
; threat to Constantinople
26
â
7
bungling in high places
136
,
141
,
191
Canopus
,
HMS
(battleship)
17
,
73
,
109
,
111
,
115
,
116
,
153
Cape Helles (Gallipoli)
76
,
100
,
101
,
105
â
6
,
111
,
146
,
151
,
154
â
5
,
159
Carden, Vice-Admiral Sir Sackville
95
,
124
,
140
,
178
; Churchill presses on minesweeping
116
â
17
; Keyes assessment of
114
â
15
; and naval-only assault
83
â
6
,
169
â
71
,
172
; plan for Dardanelles assault
100
â
13
,
105
â
13
,
120
,
121
; replaced by de Robeck
120
; requests air support
112
; shelling of Dardanelles
75
â
6
; takes command of Mediterranean Fleet
56
,
68
Cefat Pasha, Major General
3
â
4
Cemenlik
125
Central Powers xi,
13
,
54
,
178
; outflanking
89
â
91
,
102
,
136
,
140
,
170
,
177
Chanak
4
,
17
,
52
,
80
,
83
,
105
,
111
,
115
,
125
â
6
,
146
â
7
,
149
,
160
,
201
Charlemagne
(French battleship)
126
,
128
Chocheprat, Vice-Admiral P L A
33
â
5
Church, Captain W D
52
,
53
Churchill, Winston
74
,
157
,
181
,
182
,
206
; administrative and managerial style xi,
67
,
75
â
6
,
142
; ambivalent orders to Milne
39
â
41
; career and character
88
,
139
â
40
; creates Royal Naval Division (RND)
62
; and Dardanelles campaign
72
,
77
,
82
â
6
,
103
,
130
,
132
,
134
,
136
,
169
â
71
,
177
â
80
; and Dardanelles Commission
163
â
4
,
170
; exclusion from Admiralty xii,
137
â
8
,
143
â
4
,
193
; and Fisher
173
â
5
; flanking strategy
140
; and Gallipoli campaign
168
; and Iraq
204
; and Kitchener
163
,
167
â
8
,
176
â
7
; meets Enver
23
; orders Milne to engage
Goeben
36
; persuasive skills
87
,
90
,
133
,
142
,
175
; and preparations for Dardanelles campaign
171
; presentations of naval assault plans
87
â
9
,
174
â
5
; relations with Fisher
139
â
40
,
141
â
2
; relations with Turkey
23
â
4
; responsibility for escape of Mediterranean Division
51
; sequesters Turkish battleships
23
â
4
,
55
; and troops to support naval assault
101
,
103
,
114
,
116
â
17
; and War Council
164
â
6
Committee for Union and Progress (CUP)
see
“Young Turks”
Committee of Imperial Defence (CID -
later
War Council); strategy for forcing Dardanelles
20
â
2
Constantine I, King of Greece
71
,
195
â
6
,
201
Constantinople xii,
71
,
72
,
89
,
102
,
110
,
195
,
198
; British plan to capture
17
â
22
,
84
; occupation
200
; strategic importance
9
â
10
Coronel, Battle of (1914) xi, xii,
64
,
65
,
70
,
74
Courbet
(French dreadnought)
33
,
35
Cradock, Admiral Sir Christopher G F M
64
,
67
,
70
â
2
,
74
Crimean War (1854â56)
2
,
10
,
19
,
22
Ctesiphon, Battle of (1915)
183
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Lord
199
â
200
d'Amade, General Albert
118
â
19
,
121
,
152
Dardanelles: defences
1
â
5
, â
5
,
57
,
76
â
8
,
80
,
126
â
7
,
129
,
132
,
135
,
141
; international conventions and control
19
,
200
; naval blockade xii,
52
,
57
,
78
â
9
,
182
; strategic importance xiâxiii,
17
â
19
Dardanelles, Treaty of (1809)
19
Dardanelles campaign
95
â
113
; accounts of assault
121
â
5
; adverse weather
18
,
91
,
103
,
104
,
107
,
108
,
113
,
125
,
131
; ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps)
109
,
114
,
118
; assault on
Narrows
111
â
13
; bombardment of forts
121
â
9
; Bulair feint
110
,
111
,
115
,
150
,
153
; casualties and losses
127
â
8
,
180
; causes of defeat
135
â
6
; dispatch of troops to support
177
â
9
; failure of naval-only bombardment xiiâxiii,
130
,
141
; and French support
86
,
99
,
108
â
9
,
112
â
14
,
117
â
19
,
126
â
7
,
130
,
131
,
172
; importance to outcome of war
103
; landing
118
â
20
; leadership
135
â
6
; minesweepers and minesweeping
80
,
100
,
105
,
107
â
8
,
112
â
13
,
115
â
18
,
121
,
124
â
5
,
135
,
141
,
189
; observation posts
109
â
12
,
118
,
121
; pin-prick raids
106
,
107
â
8
,
110
â
11
; planning and preparations xii,
20
â
2
,
71
â
2
,
84
â
5
,
100
â
13
,
175
â
6
,
206
; political consequences of failure
136
â
7
; trial bombardment
75
â
8
,
168
; Turkish defence
110
,
111
,
125
,
129
,
132
,
135
; and
29
th Division
90
,
102
,
104
,
113
â
14
,
118
â
19
,
131
â
2
,
148
â
9
,
152
,
153
,
157
,
175
â
7
,
179