Follow Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill through 1,398 dated historical records for Great Britain.
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
At Churchills request, the commander of the Royal Navys Mediterranean Squadron, Vice Admiral S.H. Carden proposed a plan for forcing the Dardanelles using battleships, submarines and minesweepers
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
The British War Council resolve that the Admiralty should prepare for a naval expedition in February against the Dardanelles
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
The British War Council approves the plan, and Carden is supplied with additional pre-Dreadnought battleships, the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth and the battlecruiser HMS Inflexible. Churchill argues for just a naval attack at the War Council. Cabinet approves the attack with ships
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
The British War Council resolve that the Admiralty should prepare for a naval expedition in February against the Dardanelles
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
The War Council accepts Churchills idea for a naval expedition to the Dardanelles. A plan to create a supply link to the Russian front & secure the Balkan states
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill treats the destruction of Blücher as evidence of British battlecruiser superiority.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill reports the battle to Kitchener and describes the pursuit and sinking of Blücher.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Admiralty intelligence helps British battlecruisers intercept Admiral Hipper's force at Dogger Bank.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill reports that Beatty's flagship Lion is damaged but returning safely after Dogger Bank.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill argues for just a naval attack at the War Council
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
An attack on the Dardanelles could give Russia a supply route and might encourage Bulgaria and Romania to join the allied side
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
In a new year review submitted to the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, outlines two possible new fronts against the Germans, intended to break the stalemate and accompanying enormous loss of life which had rapidly set in on the western front.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
The Russian plea for assistance, coupled with a perception of the Ottoman Empire as a weak enemy ("the sick man of Europe"), made the prospect of a campaign in the Dardanelles seem appealing.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
The Admiralty assesses Germany's declaration that waters around Britain will become a submarine war zone.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill answers parliamentary questions concerning the sinking of HMS Formidable.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill answers Commons questions concerning HMS Good Hope and the losses suffered at Coronel.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill provides information on the Royal Naval Reserve during the expansion of wartime naval manpower.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill provides Parliament with information concerning enemy vessels captured by British naval forces.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill answers parliamentary questions about German submarines and British defensive measures.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill answers questions concerning the loss of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Viknor.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill reports on naval activity intended to suppress arms trafficking in the Persian Gulf.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill confirms that the British naval mission left Ottoman service in September 1914.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill explains the Admiralty's policy on judicial inquiries into major naval losses.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill cites Dogger Bank as evidence of the range and power of British battlecruiser gunnery.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill tells Parliament that the Navy entered the war fully mobilised, supplied and stationed for operations.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill states that British naval strength retains a substantial numerical margin over Germany.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill reports that wartime procedures are accelerating completion of new warships.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill states that the fleet possesses adequate reserves of ammunition, torpedoes, coal and oil.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill discusses tracked fighting machines with officers experienced in Royal Naval Air Service armoured cars.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
What was to become the Battle of Gallipoli, a 10-month Battle of attrition, begins at 7.30am on February 19, 1915. The War Cabinet decides to send troops to the Dardanelles. Only 6 British ships are involved & 3/4 of the Turkish guns survive. Bombardment of the outer ports of the Dardenalles begins
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
What was to become the Battle of Gallipoli, a 10-month Battle of attrition, begins at 7.30am on February 19, 1915
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill creates the Admiralty Landships Committee to investigate armoured tracked vehicles for trench warfare.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
George V & Churchill inspect the Royal Naval Div before it sails to the Dardanelles
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
The Allied fleet destroys outer forts of the Dardanelles
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Demolition parties of Royal Marines raided the Sedd el Bahr and Kum Kale forts, meeting little opposition. Another attempt is made on February 25, this time the Ottomans evacuate the outer defences and the fleet enters the straits to engage the intermediate defences
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
The operation was originally intended to be purely naval due to a lack of available troops and the independence of Lord of the admiralty Winston Churchill but.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
by early February, it was decided that more regular infantry was needed.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Churchill presses the Admiralty to begin systematic attacks on Ottoman forts and minefields.
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
Allied troops land at Kum-Kale, the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
The event that decided the battle took place on the night of March 8 when the Ottoman minelayer Nusret laid a line of mines in Eren Key Bay, a wide bay along the Asian shore just inside the entrance to the straits
Role range: 1914-1918 – 1911-1915
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