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How Did The Allies Lose Gallipoli

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The Gallipoli Campaign (April 1915 - January 1916) might have been the biggest failure of the allies in WW1. The allied goal of freeing the Gallipoli Strait to allow ships to Russia in the winter and their goal knocking the Ottomans out of the war by reaching Constantinople was never achieved. They had failed because the Allies severely underestimated the Ottomans, the Allied troops were dropped off at the wrong place, the Allies were not ready to attack and the Allies made many critical mistakes.

The Allies had planned that they would quickly capture the Gallipoli peninsula without much resistance from the Central Powers. However; by the time that the Allied troops had arrived in Gallipoli, the Ottomans had already created all the defences and trenches they needed and had already settled in them. They had also fortified themselves very well, meaning that it …show more content…

The original plan was to land on a beach which would not have cliffs so that they could easily advance and get off the beach to stay safe and away from the Ottomans, who would be easily able to shoot them whilst they would be on the beach. However; the ANZACs had landed on a beach, which had high cliffs on the beach, which meant that they were all easy targets for the Ottoman troops, who had already set up their defences. The Ottoman troops could easily shoot the Allied troops whilst they were trying to get over the cliffs and advance. That meant that the Allied troops had to dig into the ground and make trenches to shelter from the enemy bullets. Making trenches meant that the Allied troops could not advance as quickly as they wanted to. Landing on the wrong beach also meant that their original plans wouldn’t work and that their maps would not help them anymore. As a result of landing on the wrong beach, the allies couldn’t follow the plan as well as they wanted to because their advance had been slowed

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