I want to see ANZAC cove.  I wrote a paper about the Gallipoli campaign for one of my last undergrad courses.  I cannot fathom how the Brits could look at that terrain and think they could walk right over it.  The terrain is a defenders dream.I have never heard that Leander was supposed to have swum the Dardanelles and not the Bosporus.  I suppose either place would work.  The Bosporus just sounds more romantic perhaps that is why Westerners moved it.

Just a question, don't mean to hijack a great discussion, but are the Dardenelles and Hellespont the same thing or is it not called Hellespont anymore?

They're the same place but actually they're both ancient names. Today we call it the strait of ?anakkale in Turkish.