By the time the Troupes were transferred to the Army the unit names changed from "Marine" to "Colonial" while the ' remained part of the French Navy. The ' were still used in occasional amphibious landings but this was because of the ready availability of units normally based near naval embarkation ports or in colonial garrisons. In the World War I Gallipoli campaign in the Dardanelles, the Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient was more than two-thirds "" including the 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th Colonial Infantry Regiments and Colonial Artillery. (The artillery element at Gallipoli did not contain any artillery units from the "Troupes Coloniales".) The "Troupes Coloniales" were however far more likely to see action in African or Asian land campaigns or, during both World Wars, in France itself.