Modern Era · Middle East · War
1915
Gallipoli landings
April 25, 1915
British, Australian, and New Zealand troops scrambled ashore under Turkish machine guns on the Dardanelles cliffs. They were supposed to force the straits and knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war. Eight months and half a million casualties later they evacuated, having gained nothing. Mustafa Kemal made his name defending the heights.
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