Any attempt to close the range was hampered by the minefields laid before the war and enhanced while the bombardment ... employment at Gallipoli increased. Therefore when the naval attack finally ...

In fact, Gallipoli was doomed to fail from the ... instill in Churchill an unrealistic expectation about the power of naval bombardment against hardened coastal defenses. He became a vociferous ...

He believed that this would not only give the allies naval control of the Dardanelles, but that a naval bombardment would ... some 60,000 troops ready on the Gallipoli peninsula awaiting the ...

With the Western Front deadlocked, the British government decided to mount a naval expedition to bombard and take the Gallipoli Peninsula ... task force began the bombardment of Ottoman artillery ...

As a front, confined to a tiny area but extended by naval logistics on both sides to the Greek islands and to Constantinople respectively, Gallipoli offers a perfect laboratory for historians ...

Eric Rapkins' World War I diary is a harrowing account of the 1915 Gallipoli landing and the five ... that was to come - climbing in and out of naval cutters, horse boats and large flat bottomed ...

During the Gallipoli campaign, submarines were used to penetrate the Dardanelles Narrow and the Sea of Marmara to sink enemy ships. The naval attack was planned as an unassisted bombardment in ...

When the naval attempt failed in mid-March 1915, the War Cabinet decided to send troops to capture the Gallipoli peninsula ... the Allied troops to months of bombardment in a harsh, barren and ...