Why Did Gallipoli Lose
Gallipoli was only ever going to be a pointless struggle. World War 1 was a world war between the triple entente i.e. Italy, Austria-Hungry and Germany and the triple alliances – United Kingdom, France and Russia and all their alliances. It all started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand who was the Royal Prince of Austria-Hungry was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip who was Bosnian Serb and a member of a group called the Black Hand a secret society led by Serbian Military Intelligence. This essay aims to discuss how allies involved in the battle of Gallipoli were unsuccessful in crossing the heavily barricaded Dardanelles river. In addition, this essay also aims to explain how the soldiers` mistake of landing in Gallipoli affected the outcome of the
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Between December the 8th and 20th after not gaining much ground at all they were given the orders to evacuate by Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener. The evacuation was made possible because the Allied didn’t fire any artillery or any sniping to happen and since winter was coming the enemy would have thought that the Allied was preparing for the coming winter. The evacuation happened in three stages the preliminary stage, intermediate and then final evacuation. The first stage is when men would prepare for a winter defensive. The second stage is when they would evacuate about half of their men but yet still have enough to defend in case there evacuation was compromised and the Turks launched a heavy attack the Allied would have been able to hold them off for at least one week. Within three weeks the Allied had withdrawn 40,000 ANZACS without the Turks knowing by the 20th of December not one ANZAC soldier was left at Gallipoli and the last man to withdraw from the British army was on the 9th of January. In the end Turks lost around 86,500 people, Britain 21,000, France 9,798, Australia 8,141, New Zea Land 2,431, India 1,350 and New Found Land 49. Gallipoli was pointless struggle because they didn’t advance much in the battle and failed to achieve some
Between December the 8th and 20th after not gaining much ground at all they were given the orders to evacuate by Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener. The evacuation was made possible because the Allied didn’t fire any artillery or any sniping to happen and since winter was coming the enemy would have thought that the Allied was preparing for the coming winter. The evacuation happened in three stages the preliminary stage, intermediate and then final evacuation. The first stage is when men would prepare for a winter defensive. The second stage is when they would evacuate about half of their men but yet still have enough to defend in case there evacuation was compromised and the Turks launched a heavy attack the Allied would have been able to hold them off for at least one week. Within three weeks the Allied had withdrawn 40,000 ANZACS without the Turks knowing by the 20th of December not one ANZAC soldier was left at Gallipoli and the last man to withdraw from the British army was on the 9th of January. In the end Turks lost around 86,500 people, Britain 21,000, France 9,798, Australia 8,141, New Zea Land 2,431, India 1,350 and New Found Land 49. Gallipoli was pointless struggle because they didn’t advance much in the battle and failed to achieve some