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Turkey signed a secret treaty with Germany against Russia.
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The Greeks prouduced a detailed plan for the capture of Gallipoli that involovd aprox 60,000 Greek troops
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"The price to be paid in taking Gallipoli, would no doubt be heavy, but there would be no more war with Turkey, A good army of 50,000 men and sea power-that is the end of th Turkish menace" -Winston Churchill.
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Turkey refused to close the Dardanelles to foreign ships.
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The Turkish fleet bombarded the Russian Black Sea ports of Odessa.
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British warships on orders, opened fire on Turkish forts guarding the enterance to the Dardenelles.
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General Sir Ian Hamilton was appointed to command a proposd Constantinople Expeditionary Force comprising the British division.
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18 British and French battleships, guarded by other warships, attacked the Dardanelles Forts
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On the 25th of April 1915, the ANZACs landed in Gallipoli to fight in WW1.
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All along the beach above the roar of the waves could be heard the crash of the great barges as the sea hurled them again and again against the shore. -Captain Pawson ( Military landing officer)
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this would involve taking off more than 93,00o troops, 200 guns and more than 5,000 animals.
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The British Government ordered the evacualtion of Helles.
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More than 280 men died and there was 16,000 cases of frostbites.
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"The beginning of the New Year. It looks much the same as the old one and shells instead of bells heralded it in."
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Helles is the short version of Dardenelles, which is in Turkey.
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Turkish forces at Helles launched a major attack on the remaining 19,000 British troops.
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On the night of 8–9 January, 17,000 British soldiers were evacuated from Helles, bringing the three-week evacuation, and the Gallipoli campaign, to a close.
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Turkish newspapers reported that ‘the whole of the Gallipoli Peninsula is now free from the enemy. They are driven out of Sedduülbahir (Sed-el - Bahr)’.
