when did world war 1 start in gallipoli
Gallipoli Campaign On 27 October, Goeben and Breslau, now Yavûz Sultân Selîm and Midilli, conducted the Black Sea Raid, a sortie into the Black Sea, where they bombarded the Russian port of Odessa and sank several ships.[30] The Ottomans refused an Allied demand that they expel the German missions and on 31 October 1914, formally entered the war on the side of the Central Powers.[31][30] Russia declared war on Turkey on 2 November, the next day the British ambassador left Constantinople and a British naval squadron off the Dardanelles bombarded the outer defensive forts at Kum Kale on the northern Asian coast and Seddülbahir on the southern tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula. A British shell hit a magazine in one of the forts, knocked the guns off their mounts and killed 86 soldiers.[32]