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First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.
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1914–1918 global conflict
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Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
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Landing at Anzac Cove
1915 battle in the First World War
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Landing at Cape Helles
Amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula
The landing at Cape Helles was part of the Gallipoli campaign, the amphibious landings on the Gallipoli peninsula by British and French forces on 25 April 1915 during the First World War. Helles, at the foot of the peninsula, was the main landing area. With gunfire support from…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Gallipoli campaign
Military campaign during World War I
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Gallipoli
Peninsula in northwestern Turkey
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Ottoman Empire
Turkish empire (c. 1299–1922)
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