How Did The Allies Attack Gallipoli

In 1915, the Allied Forces (Britain, Russia & France) were debating over whether they should start attacking a different country instead of attacking places like areas of France and Belgium. Russia’s Grand Duke Nicholas appealed to Britain for aid in a Turkish invasion in the Caucasus. Eventually the Allied Forces decided to launch a naval expedition to capture the Dardanelles Straits, a small straight that connected the Aegean Sea to the Marmara Sea in North West Turkey. If they invaded successfully, they would own a small strip of sea that connected them to Russia, so that they could team up and destroy Turkey.
The attack from the Allied Forces started with naval attacks from France and Britain. The attacks were from a long way away, and the Turkish Forces fled from the front lines, but attacked the Allied Forces’ minesweepers, stopping the attack to advance any further. More battleships from the Allies advanced to attack the straits, but the Turkish forces were ready, and with guns and mines combined, they sunk 3 ships and critically damaged 3 others.
The Allies still wanted to attack, so they started preparing large amounts of troops to land in the Gallipoli Peninsula. The British War Secretary Lord Kitchener ordered General Ian Hamilton to be the Commander of British Forces for the attack. Hamilton commanded Australia, New Zealand and the
French colonies to group up with Britain on the Greek Island, Lemnos. On April 25, 1915, the Allies started their invasion on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
The Allies had managed to set up two camps on the beaches, one at Helles, and one at Gaba Tepe.
The Troops that landed made some progress, despite the increasing amount of Turkish Forces coming to fight. The Allies then landed more troops on the 6th August at Sulva Bay, which was a surprise for the Turkish opposition, and they didn’t have much defence in that area. Luckily for Turkey, the whole operation was quite a slow process, and the 3 points that the Allies had set up were built slowly and inefficiently. This led to the downfall of the attack, and Turkish forces had time to build forces and retake their forts and
ground.
Hamilton asked Lord Kitchener for 95,000 more men to fight the battle, but Kitchener offered less than a quarter of the men that had been requested. The government then ordered a retreat, but Hamilton argued that a retreat would kill off many of the remaining men as they would be weak and vulnerable. Hamilton was then resigned, and his place was taken by Sir Charles Monro. Monro then showed Kitchener that the amount of injuries inflicted on the ally troops. This finally convinced Kitchener to evacuate the remaining 105,000 allied troops left over.