World War I: The Battle Of Gallipoli

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Background
Allied Powers in World War wanted to control the sea route from Europe to Russia so they could meet up with the Russians and could get help attacking the Turkish and knock Turkey out of the war and persuade some of the neutral countries to join the allies. Winston Churchill suggested an attack on the Dardanelles because it was the best way to the Russians. If the Dardanelles was controlled by the allies the British could supply the Russians with munitions that they needed and they could cooperate with each other.
What happened
In April, 1915 soldiers were sent by boat to attack the Gallipoli peninsula because it was a strategic point to hold because it guarded the entrance to the Dardanelles strait which is a 50-km-long waterway linking the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. It was a good place …show more content…
Many of the soldiers became sick with typhoid and dysentery. There were believed to be over 145,000 british soldiers that got sick during the campaign. This was because of the unsanitary conditions in Gallipoli and on the boats. The main landing was on the 25th of April 1915. The British and french landing was on the southern tip of Gallipoli at Cape Helles while the Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed 2km north of their original planned landing place midway up the peninsula. Past the beach they found Ottoman forces who stopped them from advancing past the beach for 5 days. By this time the battle had frozen and both sides had reached a deadlock. Most of the attacks made by both sides were unproductive and resulted in many of their own people getting injured or killed because neither side could outflank the other. Leaders like

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