Timeline March 1915

Events in March 1915 2

• 1915 The naval attack on the Dardanelles Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire An Anglo-French fleet tried to force the straits and lost three battleships to mines in a single day. The failure led directly to the land campaign.
• 1915 Battle of Neuve Chapelle Early British offensive tests industrial-scale artillery bombardment British and Indian troops attacked German lines at Neuve Chapelle in France from 10 to 13 March 1915, opening with a concentrated artillery bombardment that briefly broke through before supply and communication failures stalled the advance. The battle was an early lesson in the challenges of trench warfare offensives.