Gallipoli Failure

Gallipoli
World War 1 started on July 28th, 1914 and ended on November 11th, 1918. During these long and dreadful four years there were many battles won and lost, and one of those battles was Gallipoli. The Anzacs landed at Gallipoli on the 25th of April, 1915 –and ended on the 9th of January, 1916. Gallipoli is one of the greatest battles of our time and it is also seen as one of the biggest military failures of our time. There are many questions that mostly go unanswered about the battle of Gallipoli like what were the events leading up to the landing at Gallipoli or how the Anzacs could have prevented it from being a failure. This research essay will answer these questions and have in depth answers for them.
One of the many questions about Gallipoli is what were the events leading up to the traumatising battle. On the 2nd of January 1915, the British government received an urgent appeal from Russia, asking for a British attack on Turkey to divert the Turks from the Caucasus

Three months later, a British and French fleet that included 18 battleships, attempted to force its way through to Constantinople. Three capital ships were lost and three crippled. Unknown to the Allies, the Turkish guns had almost used up all of their ammunition supplies in these attacks, and the fleet could have sailed on through the Dardanelle straits with little further damage been given to them. Instead, the naval commanders came to the conclusion that they could not force their way through the Dardanelles unless troops were first sent to occupy the Gallipoli Peninsula in force to silence the Turkish guns. Planning for the landing of troops on Gallipoli commenced. And once the plans for the troops to land on Gallipoli were finished, they sent the Anzacs and the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) to Gallipoli and they landed on the 25th of April