⚔️ Ottoman & Islamic Empiresmedium
Battle of Gallipoli
1915 CE · Turkey
Quick Facts
- Year
- 1915 CE
- Location
- Turkey
- Era
- ⚔️ Ottoman & Islamic Empires
- Difficulty
- medium
The Allied attempt to force the Dardanelles strait and knock the Ottoman Empire out of World War I ended in a costly eight-month failure. ANZAC and British forces landed on the Gallipoli peninsula but could never break through Ottoman defenses commanded by Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk). The campaign cost over 250,000 Allied casualties and forged the national identities of Australia, New Zealand, and modern Turkey.
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Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk) told his soldiers at Gallipoli: 'I am not ordering you to fight, I am ordering you to die.' He went on to found the modern Republic of Turkey.