gallipoli

I've seen it laid out that a better use of the same resources than the Gallipoli campaign would have been landings at Alexandretta and Mersin and a subsequent takeover and fortification of Cilicia: complicating Ottoman resupply of Mesopotamia by cutting the Berlin-Baghdad Railway at Adana...

This is probably a dumb question, but I don't know much about World War I. I was reading the wiki article on the Gallipoli Invasion the other day, and I noticed that at its narrowest point the peninsula was only 8 kilometers wide. Obviously, ships can't be portaged over the peninsula, but why...

To the East, to the Death, to the Struggle 1st September, 1914 With war not even a month ago, the coordination of the French and British forces was important. Together in Paris were the men who would kickstart the Allied war effort, or most of it rather: - Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener...

In honour of the centenary, I have decided to create this thread. IOTL, Gallipoli was an absolute disaster. ANZAC Cove was an awful place to land, likewise with Cape Helles. A successful strategy would be too land troops first instead of trying to sail up the Dardanelles. It would be hard, but...

Diggers, Dervishes and Dungaree's - Part 1 - One lucky shell Landings at Beach Z (OTL Anzac Cove) - 25/4/1915 The Initial Landings at Beach Z, Ari Burnu in the tongue of the turks, at 4:30 in the morning were marked by chaos and bloodshed as the first and second waves of six companies...

In the game Battlefield 1, there is a game mode called "Operations". You get "reenact" certain battles during World War 1 and it is all good fun. After each battle, the narrator will describe the outcome of the battle and give you a small history lesson on the subject. However, if your team...

The idea is somehow, for both World Wars, and between them, is to give Canada a Gallipoli in that the British cost the Canadians a untold number of live for little to no gain what so ever to a total defeat. In that afterward, it ruins Canadians view of the mother country, creates far greater...

See the title: What if Admiral Milne, upon learning the Goeben and Breslau had passed through the Dardanelles either decided to, or was ordered to, steam into the Dardanelles and continue hunting Admiral Souchon's squadron? I'm interested in the plausibility of this POD as well. Churchill had...

Hi all If the topic has been discussed before please post it thank you. I was thinking today about the great Winston Churchill and how so many incidents could have turned against him and one of the infamous was Gallipoli. Now I know to all intended purposes he was incompetent at that time...

I'm a bit of a sucker for WWI PoD's, and one of my favourites is that of a successful pushing of the dardanelles, with the british securing Istanbul with its massive navy, possibly knocking out the Ottomans from the war, and creating a more secure supply line to Russia through the black sea...