Editing Gallipoli (section)

====Crimean War (1853–1856)====
[[File:Port de Gallipoli.JPG|thumb|The port of Gallipoli, {{circa|1880}}]]
Gallipoli became a major [[military camp|encampment]] for British and French forces in 1854 during the [[Crimean War]], and the harbour was also a stopping-off point between the western Mediterranean and [[Istanbul]] (formerly [[Constantinople]]).<ref name="Plus">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Crimea/Black_Sea_1854/04_28.html |title=Crimea |access-date=11 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060222234538/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Crimea/Black_Sea_1854/04_28.html |archive-date=22 February 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Victorian">{{cite web |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/usher/despatch.html |title=Charles Usherwood's Service Journal, 1852–1856: despatch |work=victorianweb.org |access-date=2 July 2006 |archive-date=28 November 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021128225126/http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/usher/despatch.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In March 1854 British and French engineers constructed an {{cvt|11.5|km}} line of defence to protect the peninsula from a possible Russian attack and secure control of the route to the [[Mediterranean Sea]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Porter |first=Maj Gen Whitworth |title=History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I |year=1889 |publisher=The Institution of Royal Engineers |location=Chatham}}</ref>{{rp|414}}