Turkey successfully defended Gallipoli, and won this campaign. The mostly British, Australian and New Zealander forces were withdrawn from the Gallipoli Peninsula after a series of monumental failures of command produced numerous fiascos and setbacks for both the army and naval forces in the campaign. The withdrawal was, ironically, the only part of the entire operation that went to plan, resulting in a stealthy and well-executed evacuation with incredibly light casualties.
As Australians we view Gallipoli as our victory, which shaped the legend of the ANZACS, but the Gallipoli campaign was actually a miserable failure. Thousands of our soldiers were killed, and no ground was gained. The whole point of the campaign was to secure for the allies the Dardenelles, so that supplies could be taken straight through the Dardanelles to Constantinople in Russia. Before this, it wasn't possible. From the start, the campaign went wrong. On the night of 25 April (Anzac Day), the Australians landed on the shores of Gallipoli in Turkey. Yet, they landed a couple kms downstream from where they were planned to land. As a result, they faced the ready Turkish troops, and high, rocky cliffs, rather than the sandy beaches as first planned. The rest of the battle was a bloody mess and complete failure. Over the few months we were there, thousands were killed by disease and the machine guns of the enemy, and virtually no ground was gained. So, overnight, the soldiers evacuated from there. The Turks never figured it out until a few days later, thanks to a new contraption the Australians invented to make the guns keep firing.
Turkey (ottoman empire)
Turkish 5th Army, of the Ottoman Empire.
7 Victoria crosses were awarded at Gallipoli.
charles upham
Reconquest of Gallipoli happened in 1366.
how many anzacs survied gallipoli
the point of what happened in gallipoli was for Australia and New Zealand to conquour part of Gallipoli and taking out the guns based on the river.
7 Victoria crosses were awarded at Gallipoli.
not the anzacs
they thought they had won
THE Turks
There was no victory for the ANZACs in Turkey. Sadly, the entire Gallipoli campaign was a failure for everyone but the Turks.
charles upham
The Turks won the battle of Gallipoli Strategically Gallipoli was a very bold, imaginative plan which could have had far reaching consequences. The straight answer to the question is Turkey. Had the British, using many Commonwealth troops, pushed into the peninsula much more vigorously and ejected the defenders in the early days of the campaign then the link between Western Europe & Russia by sea in the Mediterranean might have been established.
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The brave soldiers fought in Gallipoli.