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=The Battle of Gallipoli=

The Battle of Gallipoli took place on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli in 1915 during WWI. The aim of this battle was to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. A huge amount of lives were lost during this battle. It is estimated that just over 130 thousand soldiers were killed and over 262 thousand soldiers were injured
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Brief Summary:
In the early 1915s Russia was fighting against Germany, Austria/Hungary, and Turkey. Though Russia had a large army it was unable to provide them with simple sustenence and the basic requirements for surviving. The landings at Gallipoli were an attempt to create a supply path through the Dardanelles to Russia. On the 25th of April, 1915, after many failed attempts to force a passage through the Dardanelles bu just the naval forces, a force made of British and Fench troop landed at multiple places along the peninsula. Over this period of time the death toll rose dramtically as did the amount of injuries sustained. The reuslt of these battles meant that the Russians would not be receiving supplies through the Dardanelles. ||

Was the battle badly planned?
Senior Commander for the aliied forces believed that long term planning was necessary and that Churchill’s desire for a speedy plan, and therefore, execution was risky. However, Churchill was so enthuiastic ever so that the council approved of his plan and targeted February as the month the campaign should start. Rushing into the execution of their plan can be perceived as bad planning, they did not have enough time to think of the the possible floors at weakpoints in the plan.

Still to this day there is confusion as to what was decided in the meeting at the War Councul. Churchill believed that he had been given the go-ahead while Asquith believed that was was decided was simply the "provisional to prepare, but nothing more".

With all this apprehension and confusion as to what the War Office did believe, Churchill’s plan was pushed through. Appareatly there was a belief that the Turks would be an easy target and that very little force would be needed for winning. They were given the go ahead to prepare an assault. In my opinion i find it ironic that Churchill would believe things like this as previously Churchill wrote in 1911 that **“It should be remembered that it is no longer possible to force the Dardanelles, and nobody would expose a modern fleet to such peril.”**

How can a battle be considered as being well planned when one of the men in charge of it (being Churchill) was constantly contradicting himself, being hypocritical and rusing into everything. The battle of Gallipoli was badly planned.

Was Gallipoli a success for the Allied forces?
The short answer is no, the Gallipoli battle was not a success.

Ironically the evacuation was the greatest Allied success of the campaign. Suvla and Anzac were to be evacuated in late December, the last troops leaving before dawn on 20 December 1915. Troop numbers had been progressively reduced since 7 December 1915 and cunnin

Irony has popped up a few times in this wikipage, these being Churchills thoughts and views towards the Danadelles, but also now the fact that the main success from Gallipoli was the evacuation. Troop numbers had been progressively reduced since 7 December 1915. The estimation of casualties from the evacuation was estimated by Sir Ian Hamilton to be around 50%, whereas 0 lives were lost during the whole evacuation.

The success of the evacuation is not camparible to the failure of the events of the battle of Gallipoli. Little progress was made from the naval attacks, the strength of the Danadelles was clearly very underestimated, which eventually lead to the need of evacuation.

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