Today, February 19th, 1915, the Gallipoli campaign 🗡️✍🏻
The first impetus for the campaign came from Russia which to facilitate, its campaign into eastern Anatolia asked the British to mount some kind of operation to divert the Ottomans. After considerable debate, the British decided in favour of an operations proposed by Churchill, a naval expeditions to bombard an take the Gallipoli Peninsula ( the western shore of the Dardanelles ) with Constantinople ( Istanbul ) as its main objective ✨🗝️
After the naval defeat, the allied troops began their landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula at two places early on April 1915, but Ottomans remained in their fortifications and beat the British assaults back again and again 🗝️🔥🗡️
At the end of the campaign, the only real success the British had was, in fact the evacuation which took place on the western banks and at the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula 🖊️
There were 213,980 casualties on the British side and the Ottomans had 120,000 dead and wounded. It was very costly defeat for the Allied Powers and for the sponsors especially Winsten Churchill. After this victory of the Ottomans, the morale of the Central Powers was immensely improved. 🔥🗡️