Why Is Gallipoli Successful

The Gallipoli Campaign The Gallipoli Campaign, or Dardanelles Campaign was a series of battles with the intentions of obtaining a sea trade route for the Allied forces, from Europe and Russia. The campaign started with a failed naval attack that was waged in February of 1915. The Allied forces were desperate to get a trade route into Russia and saw the Dardanelles Strait as the perfect way to gain control over part of the Black Sea. However, when they got to the Dardanelles Strait, they soon retreated because of Ottoman firepower on the shorelines and mines that were placed throughout the peninsula. After Churchill and other Allied officials decided that it would be necessary to march men up onto the beach and take out the Turkish guns that
disabled the Allied ships to get through. After they took out these guns, they could then sail strait up the Dardanelles Strait and into the Black Sea. On April 25, 2015, the British, Irish, and French troops along with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, advanced on the beach. The Ottoman forces took to the high ground and picked off the advancing Allied troops. The vicious fighting in the land invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula raged on until the British forces gave in and decided to withdraw. The evacuation of the Allied forces started in December of 1915 and was completed by January of 1916. The Allied forces had about 252,000 casualties, and the Ottomans suffered about 300,000 casualties. The war ended in 1918 with an Allied victory, and the fall of the Ottoman Empire.