North Fresian Landing instead of Gallipoli?

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Churchill preferred a landing just south of Denmark over the Dardanelles campaign. What if he had got his way even more than historically?
 
We get the big naval battle everyone wants between the German navy and the Royal navy. Perhaps even lots of french warships involved.

German navy sunk in german waters and not outside Scotland were they sunk their ships otl
 
Bismarck famously said he would call the police if the British ever landed an invasion force on German soil (referring to the small size of such a force and the inability of any British force trained and indoctrinated for colonial warfare to stand up to an equal or larger German continental force).

In 1915, that would have still been the case, perhaps even more so. Germany would have had to redeploy forces to contain and then destroy the landings but England would most likely have stripped forces away from the Western Front to support it too.

Alternatively, they could pull anther “Salonica” and allow the Allies to form yet another “largest voluntary prisoner of war camp”……
 
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