"The Raids of HMS Doris, December 1914" Topic
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Tango01 | 19 Jan 2018 11:46 a.m. PST |
"Britain declared war on the Turkish Ottoman Empire on November 5th 1914, the culmination of a complex series of events that resulted in Turkey finally throwing in her lot with Germany and Austro-Hungary. A Turkish attack on Russia brought Britain and France to the aid of her ally, thereby initiating the unforeseen processes that brought the Middle East to the tragic state it is in today. At this time the Ottoman Empire controlled, among much else, the entire Levantine coast – consisting of those of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza and Egyptian Sinai – between modern Turkey and the Suez Canal. The first British concern was to be the security of the Canal itself. The nearest major Turkish army concentrations were believed to be in and around Gaza. An advance of some hundred and forty miles across Northern Sinai would bring them to the Canal – as indeed would happen in early 1915. It is against this background that the raids of HMS Doris, a small, obsolescent protected cruiser were to take place. From initiation of hostilities Ottoman naval forces were essentially trapped north of the Dardanelles – the strait that gives access, via the Sea of Marmara, to the Black Sea. German and Austro-Hungarian submarines forces, which were from 1915 onwards to play a major role in the Mediterranean, represented no threat as yet. British and Allied naval units were therefore in a position to operate with a greater degree of impunity than would afterwards be the case HMS Doris was therefore able to raid in December 1914 in a swashbuckling manner that had much in common with those of her forebears in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods…"
Main page link Amicalement Armand |
21eRegt | 19 Jan 2018 2:17 p.m. PST |
A very interesting read. Thanks. |
Dave Jackson | 20 Jan 2018 9:04 a.m. PST |
Antoine's site is always very interesting…..good bits for gaming too. |
Dave Jackson | 20 Jan 2018 9:05 a.m. PST |
And…his bnooks are terrific too!! |
Tango01 | 20 Jan 2018 11:48 a.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
Bozkashi Jones | 26 Jan 2018 6:04 p.m. PST |
Huzzah! Splendid find Armand |
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