ocr: erdun side Following of the Turkey's Central entry Powers, into the France war and on the Help Index Places Great Britain tried to gain control of the straits Exit Back (the Dardanelles and Bosphorus) in order to maintain contact with the Russians through the Black Sea. After the eighteen battleships sent to force the Dardanelles were repulsed by the howitzers supplied to Turkey by Germany February 1915, the British landed at Gallipoli with colonial troops from India and the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). Bookmark The Turks, entrenched in the hills, resisted the attack for mont ...