The Gallipoli Campaign was an Allied attempt in the First World War to open the Dardanelles Strait, take Constantinople and force the Ottoman Empire out of the war. After a naval effort failed in March 1915 with the loss of several ships to mines, British, French, Australian and New Zealand troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in April. The Ottoman defenders, among them the commander Mustafa Kemal, held the high ground, and the fighting settled into stalemate in cramped trenches, with heavy casualties and disease on both sides. The Allies withdrew by early 1916. The campaign became a national memory for Australia and New Zealand and a foundation of the legend of Ataturk.
Before and after
- 1915Bedrich Hrozny shows that Hittite is an Indo-European language
- from 28 January 1915 to 30 October 1918Sinai and Palestine Campaign
- from 18 February 1915 to 26 March 1915Battles of Przasnysz
- from 21 April 1915 to 25 May 1915Second Battle of Ypres
- from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916Gallipoli Campaign
- 26 April 1915Treaty of London
- from 9 May 1915 to 18 June 1915Second Battle of Artois
- from 23 May 1915 to 6 November 1918Italian Front
- 10 June 1915Birth of Saul Bellow
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