campaign, Revolutionary and Napoleonic

Dardanelles Operation

Name: Dardanelles Operation
Location: Dardanelles, Turkey

Dardanelles Operation was a campaign fought in 1807 at Dardanelles, in what is now Turkey. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Dardanelles. It was part of the Anglo-Turkish War, which ran from 1807 to 1809. The recorded result: Ottoman victory.

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Fought1807

WhereDardanelles, Turkey40.200N, 26.400E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeOttoman victory

BelligerentsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandagainstOttoman Empire

Part ofAnglo-Turkish War1807 to 1809

Record

Date	1807 (year precision)
Place	Dardanelles, Turkey 40.200N, 26.400E
Kind	Campaign, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Strength	8 ships of the line; 2 frigates; 2 bomb vessels	1 ship of the line; 4 frigates; 4 corvettes; 2 brigs; 2 gunboats; forts and shore batteries
Casualties and losses	42 killed; 235 wounded; 4 missing; 6 ships of the line and 1 frigate damaged	4 frigates and 1 redoubt destroyed; 11 men, 1 corvette, 1 gunboat, 1 boat, and 2 guns captured
Commanders	Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet	Selim III

Placed at Dardanelles; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of the Hellespont AD 324, same recorded site
Battle of Elli 1912, same recorded site
Battle of the Dardanelles 1656, same recorded site
Battle of Byzantium 317 BC, same recorded site
Battle of the Dardanelles 1657, same recorded site

In the same war

After: Action of 5–6 July 1808 1808

Elsewhere in 1807

Dardanelles Operation is one of 3,694 engagements of the 19th century in the atlas and one of 687 in present-day Turkey.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q1984642, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Dardanelles operation (1807), revision 1378532804, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.