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Faced with stalemated trench warfare in France in late 1914, British First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill devised a plan to strategically envelop the Western Front. The Royal Navy and the French Navy would penetrate the Dardanelles Strait to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war, open a sea route to send arms to beleaguered ally, Russia, and establish a new front in the Balkans to pressure Germanys ally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.