Why Is Gallipoli Successful
The Gallipoli Campaign The Gallipoli Campaign, or Dardanelles Campaign was a series of battles with the intentions of obtaining a sea trade route for the Allied forces, from Europe and Russia. The campaign started with a failed naval attack that was waged in February of 1915. The Allied forces were desperate to get a trade route into Russia and saw the Dardanelles Strait as the perfect way to gain control over part of the Black Sea. However, when they got to the Dardanelles Strait, they soon retreated because of Ottoman firepower on the shorelines and mines that were placed throughout the peninsula. After Churchill and other Allied officials decided that it would be necessary to march men up onto the beach and take out the Turkish guns that