Gallipoli

a)The Gallipoli campaign was fought in 1915 when casualties were mounting on the Western Front,It was fought at first on the Dardanelles strait, and later on, when the navy wasn’t effective enough, the campaign was fought on the stretch of land called Gallipoli.

b)The British and Allied objectives for the Gallipoli campaign was to sweep through the Dardanelles strait, attack Constantinople and drive Turkey out of the war? It would also open up a sea route to the Eastern Front so that the allies would be able to get supplies to the Russians and it would establish a new front for the Allied Troops to march through the Balkans and attack Austria, relieving pressure on the Russian forces by drawing away troops from the Eastern Front.

c)The plan went wrong for the British and Allied forces because they did not expect the Turkish forts to be able to effectively fire shells and that the Dardanelles Strait would be heavily mined. This meant that the warships were ineffective in getting to Constantinople, compromising the assault on sea.

When the Allied forces decided to land on the beaches, they also didn’t expect the Turkish troops to be prepared, although they were prepared. British troop managed to capture a number of Turkish trenches but they suffered heavy casualties.

Later on, when the allied forces started to dig trenches, the war in Gallipoli also came to a deadlock, despite another assault made at Suvla Bay by the Allies.

d)I would agree that the Gallipoli campaign was a total failure from the Allied point of view because none, or very few of the Allied objectives were accomplished the only successful part of the campaign was that British submarines got into Constantinople harbor and sunk many Turkish ships. The British and Allied troops also suffered heavy losses that, ultimately, were futile, as in the end, the troops were ordered too pull out.

Ironically, the retreat was well organised and was complete success, one of the rare Allied success in the Gallipoli campaign.