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warfare, and in the east the Russians had suffered two great military defeats. Facing

another cold winter Russia cried for help, they wanted the English and French to attack

the Dardanelles on another front. The Allies began the attack at Gallipoli, but the Allies

failed in their attempts and withdrew from the area in early December. The Gallipoli

campaign came to an end with many losses and little to nothing accomplished. The

Gallipoli campaign was marked as the biggest blunder in military history from the side of

the Allies. The Allies failed at Gallipoli because of bad planning, command mistakes,

terrain, weather, disease, bad communication, lack of supplies, and living conditions.

Located in the Dardanelles was Constantinople, the capitol of the Ottoman

Empire. The Turks blocked the only route to the Black Sea. The Black sea is where the

only Russian ports were that were not frozen over by the winter cold. In March of

over looking them (Moyihan 49). In order to climb the cliffs at ANZAC cove the troops

until most of the bodies were removed.

what made flanking the Turks almost impossible, not the Turks themselves. It took the

Allies almost a week to travel 5 miles over these peaks leaving the Turks more than

several ships and they retreated back to the Aegean. It was then decided that it would

Allies then waited for a month and a half between the naval and land attacks. This gave

The Allied commanders on the ground at Gallipoli squandered many obvious

1912, faulty maps, and a tourist Guide to the area of Constantinople to plan the attack on

the beach and milled around until the Turks came and pinned them there for a little while

not true landing craft. The landing craft that the Allies brought were light and in 1915 the

further up the straits. Then the fleet hit unknown mines and gun emplacements. They lost